Man charged after shooting kills Gold Coast mother Mallorie Roberts

Emergency services were called to a home on Loder Street in the Gold Coast suburb of Biggera Waters at about 8pm on Sunday after a neighbour dialled triple zero. Detectives found 23-year-old Mallorie Jane Roberts with gunshot wounds; Detective acting Inspector Leia Urquhart described it as "a pretty confronting scene".

Despite the "very best efforts" of first responders, she was declared dead at the scene, leaving a two-year-old son. Ethan Midgley, 23, was arrested at the home and charged with domestic violence-related murder and unlawful possession of weapons used to commit an indictable offence.

Police seized a homemade, unregistered firearm allegedly used in the shooting. The victim and Midgley were in a relationship and lived together; he is not the boy's father. Police had attended the address before and said background forms part of the investigation.

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