Young Queensland student killed in horrific Porsche rampage on Bruce Highway identified following Easter Monday tragedy
A Queensland family has been left shattered after a Porsche driver went on a violent rampage on the Bruce Highway, allegedly causing a disastrous six-car pileup turned shooting that killed 22-year-old student Jocelyn Grace Mollee.
The Easter Monday frenzy unfolded in a matter of minutes, with police alleging the driver of a red Porsche Macan first caused a six-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of the Bruce Highway at Palmview.
Ms Mollee was riding passenger in a Nissan Micra when the Porsche collided with her side of the vehicle
She died later from her injuries.
The Porsche driver, Bradley Donald Towle, 41, of Tewantin exited the Porsche and approached a white SsangYong Rexton, whilst armed with a firearm, after the driver had left the car to help those involved in the crash.
He allegedly shot the 62-year-old Rexton driver before stealing his car.
After totalling the Rexton, he then allegedly approached a grey Mazda 3, still armed, forcing the 16-year-old learner driver, along with her parents, to flee from the vehicle.
Towle was arrested at the intersection of Steve Irwin Way and Forestry Road, Landsborough at 12.48pm – 38 minutes after he first collided with Ms Mollee and caused a cataclysmic road tragedy.
Queensland Police released body-worn camera footage that captured the moment officers apprehended the 41-year-old.
Ms Mollee was in her fourth year of a chemical engineering degree, her mum Amanda Chippendale remembering her as a 'beautiful young woman, gentle soul, and a hard worker".
'She was going to be a pillar of society,' Ms Chippendale told The Courier Mail.
'She could make people talk and she could make people laugh. She had a love of books and loved nature.
'My heart is shattered. We're broken into a million pieces. Gone but not forgotten my baby girl.'
Towle has been charged with 15 offences related to the shooting and car crash, including armed robbery, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and unlawful possession of a firearm used to commit an indictable offence.
He has also been charged with the dangerous operation of a vehicle adversely affected by an intoxicating substance and two counts of possessing dangerous drugs.
He sustained injuries in the crash and has been in hospital under police guard.
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