Kumanjayi Walker

Janet Bullock

12 Mar, 2022

A court has released footage of the moment an Indigenous man rushed at police armed with an axe three days. It is the first time Rolfe detailed why he shot Kumanjayi Walker three times while trying to arrest him in the remote community of Yuendumu Last modified on Fri 4 Mar 2022 1402 EST In the third.

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KUMANJAYI Walker was not fully incapacitated even after Zach Rolfe shot him three times in a life and death struggle with police in Yuendumu in 2019 a court has heard.

. Kumanjayi Walker might have survived being shot by Northern Territory Police if Yuendumu medical staff had not fled the troubled outback community on the day the tragic incident unfolded a court. When two officers tried to arrest him on 6 November 2019 in what has been described as the axe incident he allegedly armed himself with a hatchet attacked them. Kumanjayi Walker seen confronting cops with an axe three days before fatal shooting.

During heated cross-examination Julie Frost also denies she deliberately withheld evidence Last modified on Fri 11 Feb 2022 0207 EST The police officer who made a plan to arrest Kumanjayi Walker. On October 29 Kumanjayi Walker had removed an electronic monitoring device from his ankle and absconded from an alcohol rehab centre he was required to attend as part of a sentence handed out by. Murder-accused NT cop Zachary Rolfe and his police partner went completely against their training in the way they approached Aboriginal teen Kumanjayi Walker on the night he was shot and killed.

Constable Zachary Rolfe is accused of murdering Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker during an attempted arrest in Yuendumu - a remote community 300 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs - in November 2019. Zachary Rolfe murder trial hears allegations he shot Kumanjayi Walker in double-tap Mr Edwardson said a warrant had been issued for Mr Walkers arrest as he breached a court order.

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