A pair of junior Queensland police officers who survived a shooting ambush that claimed the lives of two fellow constables are grateful to be alive as investigators probe motives for the attack.
Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with 58-year-old resident Alan Dare, were killed in a hail of bullets at a rural property at Wieambulla in the western Darling Downs region on Monday.
Constables Randall Kirk and Keeley Brough, both 28, escaped, but the former was injured in the intense gunfire.
Const. Kirk, who is expecting his second child with his wife Bree next month, was due to be released from the hospital on Wednesday after recovering from surgery to remove shrapnel….