A “radicalized” 16-year-old teenager was shot dead by Australian police after injuring a person in a knife attack in Western Australia, the state’s Prime Minister and police reported on 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 people that at this stage it appears he acted alone,” Roger Cook said.
A call received
Police received a call Saturday evening from a man warning he was going to commit “acts of violence” but without giving 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.
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 electric pulse guns 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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