Three men have bexjmtzywen arrested 13 years after Omega Ruston was shot dead in an alleged road rage murder on a Queensland highway.
Police on Tuesday announced the major breakthrough in the 2009 Australia Day shooting at Burleigh Heads, with Queensland homicide detectives expected to travel to Sydney to apply for the trio’s extradition.
Mr Ruston was driving along the Gold Coast Highway with two friends on January 26, 2009, when he was shot dead in a suspected road rage incident.
The 32-year-old construction worker and father of two had pulled over his Holden Rodeo ute after an incident with another car, exiting the vehicle with one of his passengers.
The second vehicle, a small maroon four-door sedan, stopped behind them and two shots were fired from the rear passenger side window.
Mr Ruston was fatally shot in the stomach.
The maroon car was seen driving south away from the scene, with witnesses reporting seeing a passenger holding a pistol.
Detectives said in March last year they were investigating a possible link between Mr Ruston’s death and Sydney organised crime syndicates and outlaw motorcycle gangs who police believe helped the alleged offenders after the incident.
Central to the renewed investigation was the revelation last March that a firearm used in a 2008 drive-by shooting in western Sydney was an exact ballistic match to the gun used to shoot Mr Ruston.
