Police ‘confident’ Lake Cargelligo suspect Julian Ingram is still alive

Police say they are “confident” Julian Ingram, 37, the suspect in a triple shooting in Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, is still alive and may be receiving help from people he knows a week after the killings. The NSW assistant commissioner, Andrew Holland, told reporters that investigators believed Ingram may have been helped by “people that he knows in community given the temperatures” of more than 40C, saying “he has to have access to food and water” and that it was possible Ingram had stored supplies in the area.

Ingram, also known as Julian Pierpoint, is suspected of shooting his pregnant former partner, Sophie Quinn, 25, and her partner, John Harris, in a car on Bokhara Street at about 4.20pm last Thursday, about 450km west of Sydney. Police were then called to another shooting on Walker Street where Nerida Quinn, 50, was killed and Kaleb Macqueen, 19, was injured.

Police said a witness reported seeing Ingram in Mount Hope, about 70km from Lake Cargelligo, and that he was seen leaving the town in a white single cab Ford Ranger. The Guardian account also notes NSW police said he was last seen driving a dual cab Ford Ranger ute. Holland said Ingram, a brushcutter who worked for the local council, knew where water sources and “hidey-holes such as caves” were and that investigators had to systematically check those locations.

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