{"id":26837,"date":"2024-05-05T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26837"},"modified":"2024-05-05T04:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T09:44:24","slug":"australian-police-shoot-dead-a-boy-16-armed-with-a-knife-after-he-stabbed-a-man-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26837","title":{"rendered":"Australian police shoot dead a boy, 16, armed with a knife after he stabbed a man in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MELBOURNE, Australia — A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australia<\/a>n west coast city of Perth, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident occurred in the parking lot of a hardware store in suburban Willetton on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teen attacked the man and then rushed at police officers before he was shot, Western Australian Premier Roger Cook told reporters on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are indications he had been radicalized online,\u201d Cook told a news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut I want to reassure the community at this stage it appears that he acted solely and alone,\u201d Cook added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

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 on April 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That boy has been charged with committing a terrorist act. Six of his alleged associates have also been charged with a range of offenses, including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act. All remain in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said 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\u2019s main domestic spy agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m advised there is no ongoing threat to the community on the information available,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are a peace-loving nation and there is no place for violent extremism in Australia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police received an emergency phone call after 10 p.m. from a teenager saying he was going to commit acts of violence, Western Australian Police Commissioner Col Blanch said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boy had been participating in a program for young people at risk of radicalization, Blanch added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don’t want to say he has been radicalized or is radicalized because I think that forms part of the investigation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

Blanch said members of the local Muslim community had raised concerns with police about the boy’s behavior before he was killed on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Imam of Perth\u2019s largest mosque, the Nasir Mosque, condemned the stabbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There is no place for violence in Islam,\u201d Imam Syed Wadood Janud said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe 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,\u201d Wadood added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Muslim leaders have criticized Australian police for declaring last month’s church stabbing a terrorist act but not a rampage two days earlier in a Sydney shopping mall in 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’s motive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The church attack is only the third to be classified by Australian authorities as a terrorist act since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2022, three Christian fundamentalists shot dead two police officers and a bystander in an ambush near the community of Wieambilla in Queensland state. The shooters were later killed by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2018, a Somalia-born Muslim stabbed three pedestrians in downtown Melbourne, killing one, before police shot him dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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