– “Radicalized” 16-year-old shot dead after knife attack
The 16-year-old who injured someone in a knife attack in Perth’s southern suburbs is believed to have been radicalized online.
Posted today at 5:06 a.m.
Police received a call Saturday evening from a man warning he was going to commit “acts of violence.”
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A “radicalized” 16-year-old boy was shot dead by Western Australia state police after injuring a person in a knife attack, the state’s premier and police reported Sunday.
The teenager, armed with a knife, “rushed” at the police and was fatally shot by an agent, Western Australia Prime Minister Roger Cook told a conference. press. “There are indications that he was radicalized online. But I want to reassure the population, at this stage it seems that he acted alone,” said Roger Cook.
Police received a call Saturday evening from a man warning he was going to commit “acts of violence” but did not give his name or location, the state police official told reporters , Col Blanch.
Minutes later, he added, police received an emergency call warning them that a “man with a knife was running” at a car park in Willetton, a southern suburb of Perth.
The teenager died in hospital
According to images from a police body camera, the teenager refused to put his knife on the ground as requested by the police, Col Blanch said. The agents fired two tasers but “neither of them had the desired effect,” he said.
“The man continued to advance towards (an officer) with a firearm who fired a single shot and mortally wounded” the individual, said the police official, and the teenager died to the hospital later that night.
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