“They were going there to investigate a missing person, and presumably trying to look after that person, find out where they are and help them, and they have been gunned down in the process.”McManus says he knows all too well the horrors police officers are exposed to each day, after he was previously shot 14 times.“And it is quite a normal decision for a person to go, ‘this is more dangerous than I want, I don’t want to put my life on the line anymore, and I want to go to another job’.”‘Never seen anything like this’President of the Queensland Police Union, Ian Leavers, detailed the horrific circumstances of the shooting, and said we’ve “never seen anything like this”.“The police officers who were murdered upon being shot, they had fallen to the ground, and the two other colleagues took cover as best they could, and we know this ruthless, murderous trio have gone and executed the two police officers on the ground in cold blood.It was an absolute tragedy.”Leavers explained the trio lit a fire in an effort to force one of the officers who was hiding in the bush to break her cover.“I was speaking with the male officer’s father last night, he was just in absolute despair and is searching for answers, but he will never get that, he has lost his son,” he said."