A ‘radicalised’ teenage boy has been shot dead by police following an “extremely confronting” incident in Willetton on Saturday night.
WA Premier Roger Cook said a 16-year-old male had been shot by a police officer after rushing him with a knife in a Bunnings car park on High Street around 10pm.
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said several people called triple-0 concerned about the actions of the teenager, after he indicated he was going to hurt people. Blanch declined to declare the event a terror incident. He said early indications were that there was no additional threat; however, he said the incident had ‘some hallmarks of terrorism’.
“This individual may not have done anything that would have enabled police to do anything other than get him into this program,” he said.
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