Overturned lounges, a front door snapped in half and blood all over the floor – inside the apartment where a knifeman begged police to kill him during 10-hour siege.
A quiet apartment building on the Gold Coast was turned into a delicate scene for police negotiation on Friday night as a resident began throwing things off the balcony, as he begged with police to shoot him.
The man, who neighbours say, had lived in the apartment for eight months without even raising his voice trashed the place he called home.
A quiet apartment building on the Gold Coast was turned into a delicate scene for police negotiation on Friday night – inside after pictured
The man through objects at police and trashed the apartment, neighbours claim
Police negotiated with the man for more than 10 hours, police said
The 32-year-old man was screaming, throwing things at police and ‘begging to be shot in the head’ neighbours claim.
‘Some people living here are still pretty shaken up,’ one told Daily Mail Australia.
Pictures show the shocking mess the man left behind, when police finally took him into custody at 5am.
Shocking photos from inside the property, and the communal hallway reveal the scale of the damage.
There is what appears to be blood smeared on the tiles and a meat clever resting on the floor near the elevators.
The neighbours believe the man was renting the property from an Australian living in Singapore.
The mess left behind can be seen in this series of photographs
Neighbours claim to be left shaken after the incident in the usually quiet complex
The common area between the elevators was also ‘attacked during the siege
A meat clever and cooking knife were in the hallway after the siege had ended
‘The building is always quiet, you are more likely to hear the people fighting in the park or schoolies in the street than anyone from here.
‘I have been here 12 years and never seen any disturbances,’ the neighbour said.
Police arrived at the apartment block just after 6pm, and were there until 5am the next day.
Many of the apartment’s furnishings ended up in the hallway during the siege
A picture of what appears to be the bathroom
Police in the street during the siege which closed down the popular Esplanade on Friday