A coroner has declined to make recommendations following a shooting incident at Glen Innes last year in which a man died and three police officers were wounded.
Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan found that a 74-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head during a police operation on January 18, 2019.
Sergeant Mark Johnston, Leading Senior Constable Helen McMurtrie and Probationary Constable Samantha Petty had earlier arrived in the neighbourhood just after 10:00pm following a triple-0 call.
After discussions with witnesses, the officers proceeded to the man's house, not believing there was sufficient evidence that he was armed.
When they called out to him, he produced a weapon and yelled out something like: "See what you've gone and done now."
As all three officers drew their pistols, Senior Constable McMurtrie noticed a car with the man's relatives across the road and yelled at them to "get in the car and drive away now".
At that point the man discharged a round from the rifle.
The bullet hit the gravel driveway and ricocheted, striking Sergeant Johnston in the face and Senior Constable McMurtrie in the neck. Constable Petty received a graze to her head from one of the bullet fragments.
Senior Constable McMurtrie was seriously wounded and was placed in an induced coma as part of her treatment; pieces of shrapnel remain in her neck and she has been medically discharged from the police force.
The inquest examined the officers' actions on the night, what risk assessment they did and whether their actions were appropriate.
It found while three officers were despatched, their vehicle contained only two ballistics vests. This has since been rectified.
The report also found while there were shortcomings in the officers' risk assessment, they could not be attributed to deficiencies in the materials used to train officers in high-risk situations by the NSW Police Force.
Ms Ryan concluded there was no basis to make any recommendations arising from the circumstances of the man's death.
She expressed her sympathies to his family and said she hoped the police involved that night would recover from the trauma in time.
