Teen and woman arrested over Christmas Eve Alderley gun attack
A teenage boy and a woman have been arrested over the brutal beating of a woman outside her north Brisbane home on Christmas Eve.
They are suspected of being involved in the attack on the 19-year-old woman who had her nose broken when she was beaten in the face with a gun in an attempted carjacking in Alderley.
Police said a 15-year-old boy and 21-year old woman were arrested at a Mackay shopping centre on Monday afternoon, but were yet to be formally charged.
The woman, who Brisbane Times has chosen not to name, had just finished working a Christmas Eve shift at Chermside Shopping Centre when she was followed home by two men in a stolen car.
Detective Superintendent Tony Fleming said last month that a Caucasian man was aided by another man of Asian appearance.
The pair’s suspected crime spree began with the theft of a Mazda CX5 from a house at Fitzgibbon on Christmas Eve.
Police said the duo then followed the 19-year-old woman, who Brisbane Times has chosen not to name, home after she finished working a Christmas Eve shift at Westfield Chermside.
Police believe a man got out of the car and demanded her keys before beating her with a gun, and firing a shot.
When the woman's father came out of the house to his daughter's aid, he was threatened with a gun and knocked to the ground when the stolen Mazda reversed into him.
Superintendent Fleming said after fleeing the woman's Alderley address, the car may have been driven to a chemist robbery in Woolloongabba on Boxing Day.