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Australian police shoot dead armed teen after stabbing attack that had | |
‘hallmarks’ of terror | |
By Angus Watson and Chloe Liu, CNN | |
Updated: | |
9:18 AM EDT, Sun May 5, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
Australian police shot dead a teenage boy after he stabbed an injured a | |
man in an attack that had the “hallmarks” of terror, authorities | |
said. | |
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 said. | |
WA police commissioner Col Blanch said that the attack “has the | |
hallmarks” of a terrorist act, adding that it “meets the criteria | |
or at least the definition” of this type of crime. | |
Blanch said that on Saturday night, local police received a call from a | |
male indicating that “he was going to commit acts of violence.” | |
Police received another call from a person minutes later stating that a | |
man with a knife was running around, Blanch continued. Police | |
immediately responded to that call, he said, and three officers were | |
dispatched. | |
When the officers arrived at the scene, they were confronted by the | |
teen, who was alone and holding a “large kitchen knife,” Blanch | |
said. | |
The officers ordered him to put down the knife, but the suspect | |
refused, instead rushing the police. Two tasers were deployed and when | |
they failed to subdue him, the third officer “fired a single shot and | |
fatally wounded the male,” Blanch continued. | |
Police discovered after the shooting that the teen had stabbed and | |
injured a middle aged man prior to his confrontation with the police. | |
The victim is currently in hospital in a serious but stable condition | |
with a wound in his back, Blanch said. | |
The teen was known to the police prior to the incident, Blanch said, 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 | |
said. | |
The program focused on covering violent extremism for those that are | |
exhibiting concerning behavior, Blanch said. | |
Blanch said police received multiple calls both before and after the | |
incident from members of Western Australia’s Muslim community who had | |
concerns about the individual. | |
“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 said. | |
In a statement released Sunday regarding the incident, Australian Prime | |
Minister Anthony Albanese said: “We are a peace-loving nation and | |
there is no place for violent extremism in Australia.” | |
The incident comes after last month’s at a church in Sydney. Police | |
have arrested a 16-year-old over the attack, which they described as a | |
terrorist act. | |
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