Health workers evacuated from a remote Northern Territory community over safety fears before police shot and killed an Indigenous teenager were blamed for this death, an inquest has been told.
Kumanjayi Walker, 19, died after Constable Zachary Rolfe shot him three times during a botched arrest in Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs on November 9, 2019.
An Alice Springs inquest into the incident has heard officers fought to save the Warlpiri man's life but he died on the floor at the local police station about an hour after he was shot.
