Beau Lamarre-Condon made a “pew, pew” sound to mimic a gun as he confessed to a friend that he had killed two people and asked for help to clean the crime scene, a court has heard.
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court → make → scene
The former friend testified in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday that Lamarre-Condon, then a NSW police officer, was “stressed and panicked” as he revealed he had shot two people with his service weapon.
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he → testify → weapon
“I was in shock,” the man said.
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man → say → shock
“I didn’t know what to do.”
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I → know → what
Lamarre-Condon, 31, is standing trial on two counts of murder over the shooting deaths of Jesse Baird, 26, a former Network Ten producer and presenter, and Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant, on February 19, 2024.
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Condon → stand → February
The former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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officer → plead → charges
The witness told the court that Lamarre-Condon called him on an unknown number after the alleged murders and said: “Hey bro, I need to speak to you.
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I → tell → you
I’m out the front of [your work].”
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I → ’m → work
The accused was in a rented car rather than his distinctive grey Tesla, the court heard.
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court → accuse → Tesla
The man said Lamarre-Condon told him: “I’ve done something.
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I → say → something
I’ve killed people.”
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I → kill → people
It “felt like it was an out-of-body experience”, he said the accused told him.
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accused → feel → him
He said Lamarre-Condon “made a gesture with his fingers indicating a firearm” and said “pew, pew”, telling him he had used “my gun”.
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he → say → gun
“I shot the first one through the head and the second one through the door,” he said Lamarre-Condon told him.
“He said that he … waited for the other tenants of the property to leave and then made entry,” the witness said.
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witness → shoot → entry
Lamarre-Condon said the second person “wasn’t even meant to be shot” but he couldn’t leave any witnesses, the man said.
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man → say → witnesses
‘I shot the first one through the head and the second one through the door.’
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I → shoot → door
The accused asked him to take the day off work “to help him clean up his mess”, the man said, but he told Lamarre-Condon he could not take the day off.
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he → accuse → day
The witness said Lamarre-Condon later told him: “Did you like my Oscar performance?
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you → say → performance
Got you, I was just joking.”
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I → get → you
He said he was “quite angry that someone would even joke about that” and told Lamarre-Condon that this was “not a f---ing joke, you’re mentally f---ing with me, this is not cool”.
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this → say → me
Lamarre-Condon had responded that it “is real; I just don’t want you to tell anyone”, he said.
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he → respond → anyone
He recalled another conversation in which Lamarre-Condon said he was going to “dump them in a body of water” at “a mate’s property”, and he replied that they would float.
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they → recall → property
“You were right, bodies do float,” Lamarre-Condon allegedly told him at a later date.
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Condon → float → date
The man said the accused took him for a drive to the Royal National Park in Sydney’s south in early 2024 after telling him in a phone call: “I need to show you something; I can’t tell you.”
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I → say → you
Lamarre-Condon pulled his police-issued Glock pistol out of a brown paper bag, he said, and told him he was going to shoot the weapon using bullets from police training.
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he → pull → training
“I was kind of in shock at that point,” the man said.
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man → say → point
Lamarre-Condon handed him his police-issued radio, he said, and asked him to “listen out for any reports of police movement in this direction after he shot the firearm”.
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he → hand → firearm
After firing the gun into bushland, the accused allegedly asked his friend: “Was that loud?
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that → fire → friend
“He then proceeded to put the firearm back into the bag and then said, ‘Does this make any difference to the sound?’ and ... proceeded to shoot another shot into the bushland,” the man said.
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man → proceed → bushland
The former friend said he told Lamarre-Condon: “You could hear that anywhere.
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You → say → that
It was super loud, but I was also standing 30 centimetres away from where the gun was fired.”
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gun → stand → ?
It “echoed” through the gully, the man said.
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man → echo → gully
“I know that he found one [cartridge] … but I don’t think the other one was found,” he said.
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he → know → cartridge
“Beau was looking for the cartridges and asked me to also look on the ground.”
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Beau → look → ground
The accused told him afterwards that “you can’t tell anyone about this”, the witness said.
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witness → accuse → this
The man testified that Lamarre-Condon told him, in about December 2023 or January 2024, before the national park trip, that he wanted “to buy a suppressor or a silencer, which is to muffle the sound of a gun going off”.
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which → testify → gun
“He said that he was going hunting on a mate’s farm,” he said.
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he → say → farm
But they could not find one at a particular shop, he said.
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he → find → shop
The man said Lamarre-Condon had told him on February 17, 2024, two days before the alleged murders, that “I’ve got to get my surfboard back from Jesse” and bought a surfboard bag.
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I → say → bag
The man said he did not believe that Lamarre-Condon surfed.
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Condon → say → ?
…and 6 more, not listed.
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