Overview
- Police allege a 50-year-old man stabbed a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman at a Cascade Street home in Raceview before setting the house on fire during an incident over the weekend.
- Officers arrested the man at the scene and charged him with two counts of attempted murder classified as domestic violence offences and one count of arson classified as a domestic violence offence.
- The teenage boy was taken to the Queensland Children’s Hospital in critical condition with severe abdominal wounds and the woman was taken to the Mater Hospital in a stable condition with non-life-threatening chest and hand injuries.
- Queensland Police said the three people were known to each other and the suspect is expected to appear at Ipswich Magistrates Court; reporting differs slightly on whether the incident occurred on Saturday or Sunday.
- Police have framed the case as a domestic-relationship incident which will proceed through criminal courts and may prompt local safety and support responses for those affected.