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Second day of inquest into police shooting of Western Australia

July 2, 2024 - 17:56 By ABC NEWS (Australia)

A warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers this next story contains the image of a person who has died. A coronial inquest is continuing into the death of an Indigenous woman fatally shot by a police officer in Geraldton in the West Australian mid-west in 2019. The Yamma-Gee woman JC was carrying a knife and scissors when she was shot by Police Constable Brent Wyndham in 2019. He was charged with her murder but acquitted by a supreme court jury in 2021.