{"id":7361,"date":"2024-05-05T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2024-05-05T13:15:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:15:28","slug":"australian-police-shoot-armed-teenager-after-stabbing-attack-that-that-had-hallmarks-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7361","title":{"rendered":"Australian police shoot armed teenager after stabbing attack that that had &#8220;hallmarks&#8221; of terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Australian police shot and killed a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife after he stabbed a man in an attack that had the &#8220;hallmarks&#8221; of terror, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the parking lot of a hardware store in Willetton, a suburb in the west coast city of Perth, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they received an emergency phone call after 10 p.m. from a teenager saying he was going to commit acts of violence, Western Australian Police Commission Col Blanch said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WA_Police\/status\/1786963914418475240\" target=\"_blank\">news conference<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Police said they were later alerted by a phone call from a member of the public that a knife attack was underway in the parking lot. Three police officers responded, one armed with a gun and two with conducted energy devices.<\/p>\n<p>The teen, who was only described as a 16-year-old Caucasian male, attacked the man and then rushed at police officers before he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>Police deployed both conducted energy devices but they failed to incapacitate the boy before he was killed by a single gunshot, Blanch said.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 30s was found at the scene with a stab wound to his back. He was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Blanch said the incident had the &#8220;hallmarks&#8221; of a terrorist attack, adding that it &#8220;meets the criteria or at least definition&#8221; of this type of crime.<\/p>\n<p>He said members of the local Muslim community had raised concerns with police about the boy&#8217;s behavior before he was killed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager had been participating in a program for young people at risk of radicalization, Blanch added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are indications he had been radicalized online,&#8221; said Western Australian Premier Roger Cook during<strong> <\/strong>a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I want to reassure the community at this stage it appears that he acted solely and alone,&#8221; Cook added.<\/p>\n<p>Police and Australian Security Intelligence Organization agents have been conducting a counterterrorism investigation in the east coast city of Sydney since another 16-year-old boy stabbed an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest in a church\u00a0<span class=\"link\">on April 15<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>That boy has been charged with committing a terrorist act. Six of his\u00a0alleged associates\u00a0have also been charged with a range of offenses, including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act. All remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlboMP\/status\/1786933007301165434\" target=\"_blank\">post on X, formerly known as Twitter<\/a>, that he had been briefed on the latest stabbing in Perth by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess, who heads the nation&#8217;s main domestic spy agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m advised there is no ongoing threat to the community on the information available,&#8221; Albanese said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a peace-loving nation and there is no place for violent extremism in Australia,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Imam of Perth&#8217;s largest mosque, the Nasir Mosque, condemned the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no place for violence in Islam,&#8221; Imam Syed Wadood Janud said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate the effort of the police to keep our communities safe. I also want to commend the local Muslim community who had flagged the individual prior with the police,&#8221; Wadood added.<\/p>\n<p>Some Muslim leaders have criticized Australian police for declaring last month&#8217;s church stabbing a terrorist act but not a rampage two days earlier in a\u00a0<span class=\"link\">Sydney shopping mall<\/span>\u00a0in which six people were killed and a dozen wounded. The 40-year-old attacker in the mall attack was shot dead by police. Police have yet to reveal the man&#8217;s motive.<\/p>\n<p>The church attack is only the third to be classified by Australian authorities as a terrorist act since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, three Christian fundamentalists shot dead two police officers and a bystander in an ambush near the community of\u00a0<span class=\"link\">Wieambilla<\/span>\u00a0in Queensland state. The shooters were later killed by police.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2018, a Somalia-born Muslim\u00a0stabbed three pedestrians\u00a0in downtown Melbourne, killing one, before police shot him dead.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/> Australian police shoot armed teenager after stabbing attack that that had &#8220;hallmarks&#8221; of terror<br \/>\n<br \/>#Australian #police #shoot #armed #teenager #stabbing #attack #hallmarks #terror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian police shot and killed a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife after he stabbed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[4025,523,1836,4026,527,2269,1750,1821,1858],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Australian police shoot armed teenager after stabbing attack that that had &quot;hallmarks&quot; 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