Overview
- Police answering a call for help at a Rothesay Circle home in Goodwood encountered a man outside and fired their guns during a confrontation, leaving him with a chest wound.
- Officers gave first aid on scene before taking the man to the Royal Hobart Hospital, where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
- Tasmania Police opened a Professional Standards investigation, the internal review they trigger after serious incidents involving officers.
- Initial inquiries indicate the man had been threatening police, and officers reported he was alone at the property with no other injuries.
- Police also reported a separate, targeted shooting in Chigwell a day later involving a 29-year-old man who was taken to Royal Hobart Hospital in serious but stable condition.