'Radicalised' 16-year-old shot dead by police in Australia
The Peninsula
Sydney: Western Australian police shot and killed a radicalised 16 year old boy with a knife who had stabbed a man in a Perth car park, police and t...
Sydney: Western Australian police shot and killed a "radicalised" 16-year-old boy with a knife who had stabbed a man in a Perth car park, police and the state premier said Sunday.
The teenager "rushed" at police who responded by shooting him twice with Tasers before firing a single fatal shot, they said.
"There are indications he had been radicalised online. But I want to reassure the community at this stage it appears he acted solely and alone," Premier Roger Cook said.
Police received a call late on Saturday from a male warning that he was going to commit "acts of violence" but without giving his name or location, the state's police commissioner, Col Blanch, told reporters.
Within minutes, another emergency call alerted police that a "male with a knife was running around the car park" in Willetton, a southern suburb of Perth, he said.