A man working for the police in Sydney was reportedly shot outside the Parramatta police headquarters by a gunman in the Australian city today.
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Australia is among most active allies of the U.S. in the battle against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria.
“We have no information that this individual posed this type of threat but… we believe his actions were politically motivated and therefore linked to terrorism”.
The source said the 15-year-old was armed with a revolver and did not know the victim, Curtis Cheng.
A critical incident team will now investigate all circumstances surrounding the incident, police say.
And in December of that year, Iranian-born self-styled cleric Man Haron Monis and two hostages were killed following a 17-hour siege at a central Sydney cafe.
He said he did not see any teenagers at the mosque prior to the shooting. “We asked our staff to come inside because it appeared to be a serious situation”, Mr Almeida said. “But he was certainly targeted in terms of the shooting”. Certainly wasn’t a ricochet.
On Friday, a 15-year-old British boy was sentenced to life in prison for inciting an attack on a World War One commemorative event in Australia from his bedroom in northern England.
Unity and cooperation is needed to combat the growing issued of radicalised young Australian, terrorism researcher Professor Greg Barton said.
It was then that two special constables on security duty ran from the police building and shot the gunman dead. In May, police arrested a 17-year-old in Melbourne and accused him of plotting to detonate three homemade pipe bombs.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described Friday’s incident as “a shocking crime” and “cold-blooded murder”.
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Another witness said: “I saw the guy dressed in black on the pavement”, he told the radio host, “blood everywhere”. It is a shocking crime.
