GET HER OUT..! – POLICE REVEAL NEW DETAILS AFTER CONFIRMING THE WOMAN FOUND D3AD IN THE CHARLEVILLE TRAGEDY WAS PREGNANT, AS THE TODDLER RESCUE COMES INTO SHARPER FOCUS.

Charleville tragedy: Police confirm woman found dead was pregnant, release toddler rescue details

Authorities have also shared new details about the two people found dead at the outback home.

Officers save toddler from outback murder scene

A woman found dead at the scene of a suspected murder-suicide was pregnant, police have confirmed, while revealing more details about the heroic acts by officers to rescue a toddler from an “incredibly confronting, traumatic and tragic” situation.

Julia Brunsdon, 23, and Michael Waltke, 45, were found dead at a property on King St in Charleville, Queensland, following a police stand-off that forced the area into lockdown on Wednesday.

Southern Region Assistant Commissioner Matthew Vanderbyl confirmed on Friday the pair were in a relationship and that Brunsdon was pregnant. He said it was too early to say whether the baby was Waltke’s.

Details of the pair’s injuries have not been disclosed, with post-mortem examinations to be held in Brisbane next week.

Vanderbyl could not say if the woman was alive when police arrived, with authorities still piecing together the actual sequence of events.

But he described the situation as “volatile and dynamic” and added that police believed Waltke was armed and that they were in “grave danger”.

“Whether firearms or other weapons are involved will probably likely be confirmed earlier next week once we’ve completed our examination of the crime scene,” he said.

The toddler was covered in blood when spotted at a doorway and “immediately scooped up” by a second-year constable.

“That police officer took that distressed child and did what anybody who has young children or knows young children would do and just held that child close to his chest, and turned himself away from the scene of danger and from the bright lights and from what was going on,” Vanderbyl said.

“You have to feel for a child who has potentially seen what I suspect that she has seen.”

The child had a minor scratch but was not physically injured beyond that.

Vanderbyl added the constable and at least two other officers at the home “probably prevented further tragedy”.

“To see a little one come from such a position of great distress is really heart warming and moving,” he said.

“To be doing it under threat of your life and the lives of your colleagues who are in that dynamic situation is extraordinary.

“And his supervisor is saying, you’ve got to go, take the little one, get her out, get her out, get her out.”

Police were called to the home about 5.30pm on Wednesday by reports of a serious assault.

When the situation became threatening, officers were forced to retreat.

Negotiators and a specialist emergency response team were called in and local streets were locked down.

“It’s both a death in police operation, but it’s also a homicide investigation. And we do that at the direction of the coroner,” Vanderbyl said.

Police and forensic technicians will remain at the property over the weekend and authorities have flagged it will be a “lengthy, detailed investigation as we uncover the entirety of the circumstances around the two people involved”.

“This is an incredibly confronting, traumatic and tragic crime scene,” Vanderbyl said.

The couple is believed to have lived in Charleville for some time.

The child safety department is working with the family with regards to the welfare of the little girl.

The incident has sent shudders through the rural town and broader Shire of Murweh, mayor Shaun Radnedge said.

“This is a heartbreaking day for Charleville and for the wider Murweh community,” Radnedge said.

“We’re a close-knit community and an incident of this nature is felt deeply by many people.”