Man tells jury he saw farmer accused of triple murder shoot family
The trial of a Queensland cattle farmer accused of a triple murder has heard from a man who says he witnessed the shooting and survived a gunshot himself.
In the trial of Darryl Valroy Young, a 63-year-old Queensland cattle farmer accused of a triple murder and an attempted murder, a man has testified that he witnessed the shooting and survived a gunshot himself. Young, charged with the murders of Mervyn Schwarz, Maree Schwarz, and Graham Tighe, and the attempted murder of Ross Tighe, pleaded not guilty at the beginning of the trial in Townsville's Supreme Court.
The trial, expected to last three weeks, has heard that Young allegedly shot each of the victims with a rifle on August 4, 2022. Ross Tighe, 34, provided evidence via video link from a courtroom in Mackay, alleging that Young refused to shake his stepfather's Mervyn Schwarz's hand and then fired his rifle at the family. Tighe stated that he was shot in the stomach and hip during the incident and that after the shooting, he heard two more gunshots before finding his mother shot through the window of her ute.
Ross Tighe claimed that no cattle galloping or theft had occurred and denied that anyone involved was armed on the day of the incident. The trial has also heard that Young's Shannonvale Station shares a boundary with the jointly owned Sutherland Station by Mervyn Schwarz, Maree Schwarz, and Graham Tighe.
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