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Second man charged with attempted murder, Aspley

Where: Centre Street, Aspley, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Second man charged with attempted murder, Aspley
Aspley, Queensland · Queensland Police

The release

Police have charged a second man today following investigations into an alleged shooting at Aspley last month.

Around 10.50pm on Tuesday, 25 August, police attended Centre Street, where they allegedly located a 24-year-old Aspley man with two gunshot wounds.

He was transported to hospital at the time in a serious condition.

Following investigations, detectives from the Carseldine Criminal Investigation Branch today attended an address in Griffin and arrested a 25-year-old Griffin man.

The man has been charged with one count of attempted murder.

He was refused police bail and is due to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court tomorrow, 9 September.

The arrest follows the charging of a 33-year-old Narangba man on August 28.

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Crime in the Brisbane council area

Brisbane is a council area in Queensland with about 1,375,301 residents. It has a Crime Score 57 out of 100 (moderate), 138th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by break-ins (76th percentile), robbery (89th percentile), theft (91st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 52.

Violent
981 per 100k
Property
5,360 per 100k
Break-ins
708 per 100k
Theft
3,284 per 100k

See the full Brisbane crime profile

2017-18: 486 per 100,0002018-19: 488 per 100,0002019-20: 473 per 100,0002020-21: 552 per 100,0002021-22: 703 per 100,0002022-23: 801 per 100,0002023-24: 864 per 100,0002024-25: 957 per 100,0002025-26: 981 per 100,0002026-27: 234 per 100,0002017-182022-232026-27
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Brisbane, 2017-18 to 2026-27 — down 52% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for Queensland.

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