Perth: Australian police shoot dead armed teen after stabbing attack that had ‘hallmarks’ of terror
Australian Broadcasting Corporation through AP
A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a person in a parking zone within the Australian west coast metropolis of Perth, officers mentioned Sunday.
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Australian police shot dead a teenage boy after he stabbed an injured a person in an attack that had the “hallmarks” of terror, authorities mentioned.
The teenager, described as a 16-year-old Caucasian male, was armed with a knife when he carried out the attack in a suburb of Perth, Western Australia (WA) Premier Roger Cook mentioned.
WA police commissioner Col Blanch mentioned that the attack “has the hallmarks” of a terrorist act, including that it “meets the criteria or at least the definition” of this sort of crime.
Blanch mentioned that on Saturday night time, native police acquired a name from a male indicating that “he was going to commit acts of violence.”
Police acquired one other name from an individual minutes later stating that a person with a knife was working round, Blanch continued. Police instantly responded to that name, he mentioned, and three officers have been dispatched.
When the officers arrived on the scene, they have been confronted by the teen, who was alone and holding a “large kitchen knife,” Blanch mentioned.
The officers ordered him to place down the knife, however the suspect refused, as an alternative speeding the police. Two tasers have been deployed and once they didn’t subdue him, the third officer “fired a single shot and fatally wounded the male,” Blanch continued.
Police found after the capturing that the teen had stabbed and injured a center aged man previous to his confrontation with the police.
The sufferer is at present in hospital in a critical however steady situation with a wound in his again, Blanch mentioned.
The teen was recognized to the police previous to the incident, Blanch mentioned, as “he was part of a program about online radicalization for the last couple of years.”
“We are dealing with complex issues with this 16 year old male, both mental health issues but also online radicalization issues,” Blanch mentioned.
The program targeted on masking violent extremism for these that are exhibiting regarding habits, Blanch mentioned.
Blanch mentioned police acquired a number of calls each earlier than and after the incident from members of Western Australia’s Muslim neighborhood who had considerations concerning the particular person.
“I do want to thank members of the Muslim community who did that because that enabled us to identify rapidly who this individual was and respond as [quickly] as we did,” Blanch mentioned.
In a press release launched Sunday relating to the incident, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned: “We are a peace-loving nation and there is no place for violent extremism in Australia.”
The incident comes after final month’s stabbing of a priest and bishop at a church in Sydney. Police have arrested a 16-year-old over the attack, which they described as a terrorist act.
