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Tim Dornin

Wailing, yelling after Walker shooting

An inquest has been told there's a lack of youth services in the outback community of Yuendumu. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Family members were wailing, yelling and throwing themselves to the ground in Yuendumu immediately after the police shooting of Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker as they struggled to process what had happened, the inquest into his death has been told.

Local youth development worker Brooke Shanks, whose partner was related to the teenager, said those who first gathered at the house in the remote Northern Territory community where the shooting occurred were angry.

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