Stanley Russell inquest: one of the police who shot Aboriginal man ‘very comfortable’ with firearms, court hears

Asked if police had conducted a risk assessment, constable tells court he did not need to know Gomeroi man's life story'

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A New South Wales court has heard one of the police officers who shot a Gomeroi man last year was a former army reserve member who counted shooting among his hobbies, owned several rifles and was very comfortable" with firearms.

Stanley Russell, 45, was shot dead by police in his aunt's home in western Sydney on 9 November 2021 after officers had come to arrest him on an outstanding warrant.

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