Bombshell claim after teenager was shot dead by cops at a Bunnings in Perth trends now
A random stabbing attack of a man by a radicalised teenager, who was shot dead by police in Perth, has 'all the hallmarks of a terror incident', the Western Australian premier says.
An officer fatally shot the 16-year-old about 10pm on Saturday after he rushed at police with a large kitchen knife in a Bunning's hardware car park in the southern suburb of Willetton.
In the minutes before he'd called triple-zero threatening 'acts of violence' and reportedly sent a text message to multiple people saying: 'I am going on the path of jihad tonight for the sake of Allah.'
The teen stabbed a man in his 30s in the back outside the hardware store in a random attack that left his victim severely injured.
WA Premier Roger Cook on Monday repeated the state police commissioner's sentiments, saying the stabbing had all the 'hallmarks of a terrorist incident'.
Asked if WA police would declare the attack a terror incident, Mr Cook said it usually happened when there was an ongoing threat, which wasn't the case.
Neighbours of a 'radicalised' Islamic teenage boy shot dead by police claim his house was searched by police sometime last year (pictured, police after the teen was killed)
'The police remain confident that this is a single person acting out of their own volition,' he told reporters.
Mr Cook also confirmed that his government and the Education Department were aware of concerns at the boy's school about his radicalised behaviour.
He referred questions about other radicalised students, and claims they may have been attempting to radicalise their classmates, to the Education Department.
'This young man was harbouring some extremist thoughts, which is the reason why he was part of the countering
