An inquest is to be held into the deaths of five people shot by Queensland Police officers.

The state coroner announced a joint inquest will be held into the deaths of five men shot between August 2013 and November last year.

The inquest will examine circumstances surrounding the deaths of Anthony Young, Shaun Kumeroa, Laval Zimmer, Edward Logan and Troy Foster.

The hearing is expected to begin later this year.

Young, 42, was shot by police at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast in August 2013 after he threatened them with a machete.

It was later discovered he had murdered a man and woman in their 40s, whose bodies were discovered in a house where Young had been living.

Forensic police outside the house in Coolum where two people were murdered in August 2013. ( ABC News: Josh Bavas )

Their 12-year-old daughter escaped when she ran to a neighbour's house.

Kumeroa, 42, had been holed up in his car for several hours armed with a gun at Inala in Brisbane's south-west on September 29 last year.

Officers had arrived at his unit to conduct an enquiry on an unrelated matter.

Police negotiators had been speaking with the man throughout the afternoon on a telephone they had given him.

Aerial footage of the scene showed Kumeroa leaping suddenly from the car and point a gun at special emergency response team police, who fired several shots at him.

Police and paramedics performed CPR on the man, but he died of his injuries.

In November last year, three more men were shot dead in the space of a week.

Zimmer, 33, was killed at Kippa-Ring, north of Brisbane, on November 18, shot twice by officers following up reports of hoax triple-0 calls.

On November 23, Edward Logan, 51 was shot several times in the chest at Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast by an officer responding to a call about a man becoming violent at a family birthday party.

The next day, Civil Liberties Council vice-president Terry O'Gorman expressed concern about the number of police shootings and called on the Crime and Corruption Commission or the coroner to conduct a review.

That same night, Troy Foster, 32, was shot dead on the driveway of his mother's home in the Gold Coast suburb of Southport.

Foster had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar and also obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Police said he was armed with a knife and lunged at officers, who shot him in self-defence.