A troubled veteran deliberately provoked police to shoot him dead during a knife-wielding confrontation, a coroner has found.
Veteran Steven Richard Angus, a former Australian Army vehicle mechanic, died from a gunshot wound to the chest at his Kirwan home in Townsville on April 21, 2023.
An inquest heard Mr Angus was intoxicated and armed with two large knives when he ran at officers with the weapons raised, after refusing repeated commands to drop them.
