A suspected killer who is on the run after a teenage girl’s body was found in a barrel could be armed, Queensland police say.



Detectives say Zlatko Sikorsky, 34, has access to guns and is a risk to the public, warning anyone who spots him to stay away and call Triple 0.



Police are hunting for Sikorsky after a black ute was dumped at a residential estate at Stapylton, south of Brisbane, on Wednesday afternoon and police found a body when they searched a barrel stored in the back of the vehicle.



Earlier a man had fled in the ute from a home at Buccan in Logan, which police had visited while making inquiries into the disappearance of 16-year-old Sandgate girl Larissa Beilby.



Logan Det Acting Insp Scott Furlong would not comment on the investigation into Bielby’s disappearance, but did confirm Sikorsky was known to her.

“I don’t know the relationship, we know that they are associated, however we don’t know the exact relationship between Larissa Beilby (and Sikorsky),” Furlong told reporters on Thursday.

“At this stage we believe he may present a risk to the public ... we have information that he has access to firearms.”



A resident of the estate told AAP a tattooed, Caucasian man pulled up in a ute with the windows shot out and bullet holes through the bonnet, which was flipped up over the windscreen.



“He pulled out a shotgun and said to me and my partner ‘I’ll give you two grand if you let me in the gate right now’,” the woman, who did not want to be named, said.



“We lifted up the gate and let him in.”



As the car passed, she says she spotted a blue barrel in the tray and a limb was visible.



“There was just the one barrel, it wasn’t massive either, it was only small. ” she added.



Sikorsky has distinctive tattoos around his neck and is believed to be travelling in a silver 2014 Holden Commodore with a sunroof, with Queensland registration 966 WKB.



Police believe he is still in the Logan or Gold Coast area.



Police still didn’t know the identity of the victim, and could not say how long the body might have been in the barrel found on the tray of the ute.



Furlong said Sikorsky was associated with the Buccan address, but they were not sure if he lived there.



Police across the south-east are on alert as the manhunt continues.