Maybe many aussies have had enough thats why things are getting out of hand, anyway 40 minutes from me a young dad flying the flag on his ute was cut off and gunned down as he got out of his car.
THE father of a man shot dead in a road rage attack says the tragedy is a lesson to young drivers to keep their cool.
Father-of-two Omega Ruston, 32, died in a hail of bullets beside the Gold Coast Highway on Monday night after an apparently minor traffic incident escalated into a lethal confrontation.
Yesterday, a devastated Phil Ruston said his family was struggling to come to terms with the sudden and violent death of his "knockabout lad".
Gallery: Pictures from the scene
"If anything, I hope this will be a lesson to young people to be careful where they go and how they handle themselves," he said.
Police were last night still hunting Mr Ruston's killer, who pulled up beside him near a Burleigh Heads bus stop filled with young Australia Day revellers and shot him twice at close range.
Eye witnesses were helping police to recreate what happened in the tragedy, describing how the young man was gunned down so senselessly.
A witness recreates for police how the road rage shooting incident happened
The gunman was one of three people travelling in a red or maroon sedan that police believe cut off Mr Ruston's utility, which was flying Australian flags.
"It's a particularly nasty event and obviously we are concerned for other people's safety," Detective Inspector Marc Hogan said.
Phil Ruston said he had celebrated Australia Day with his son in a nearby North Burleigh park only hours before the shooting.
Insp Hogan said multiple shots were fired, two of them hitting Ruston in the stomach. He slumped against his ute and died at the scene, despite attempts to save him by two friends who were with him in the vehicle.
An off-duty police officer on her way home from work and a nurse also tried in vain to keep him alive.
The sedan, whose occupants police said included a man of Middle Eastern appearance, sped off south along the highway.
Neighbouring residents said they thought the gunshots were Australia Day fireworks until they looked out and saw Ruston lying on the road.
David Hardy, who lives across the road from the scene, said he was haunted by the incident.
"When I try to go to sleep, I just keep hearing 'bang, bang'," he said.
Another resident said he heard an argument moments before 'a couple of gunshots we thought were firecrackers'.
"There was raised voices before it but you wouldn't even describe it as hostile," he said.
"Then I've seen the guys legs under the car."
Police would not rule out a possible link between the shooting and Australia Day violence at Burleigh Heads where wild brawls erupted, but said it appeared at this stage to be a random road rage incident.
Phil Ruston said he had celebrated Australia Day with Omega in a nearby North Burleigh park only hours before the shooting.
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Mr Ruston described his son, a construction worker, as both a spiritual person and a regular Aussie bloke.
