A TEEN terror suspect under investigation for making threats against Prime Minister Tony Abbott was shot dead last night after stabbing a Victorian police officer and a federal police agent. 
 
The 18-year-old Narre Warren man, who was under surveillance over his threats against Mr Abbott and had been seen with an Islamic State flag at the Dandenong shopping centre, met police outside Endeavour Hills police station in Melbourne’s southeast about 7.45pm.

He greeted the two officers with a handshake before attacking them, police say.

He stabbed the AFP officer a number of times before twice stabbing the Victorian officer in the forearm, Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius said.

Mr Cornelius said the Victorian officer fired a single shot that killed the man.

“Our members had no inkling that this individual posed a threat to them,” he said.

“It’s absolutely clear to us that our members really had no choice other than to act in the way in which they did.”

The injured officers, both from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team, are in hospital in a stable condition.

Senior intelligence sources confirmed that the terrorism suspect had been among a number of people whose passports were recently cancelled.

Mr Cornelius said police had arranged to meet with the man because of concerns about his behaviour.

But an altercation started after he arrived at the police station, which led the teenager to produce a knife.

The dead man had acted on his own, Mr Cornelius said.

“The individual who has died, was invited and did come of his own free will to the police station,’’ he said.

“Obviously both members are in shock but we are doing everything when can to provide them with support and assistance in what is for any police officer an incredibly difficult and challenging time.”

Australian Federal Police Commander Bruce Giles said the man was invited to discuss a “routine matter”.

The matter was “something that needed to be spoken about” with the individual, he said.

Shortly before 11pm the bomb squad deployed a bomb-disposal robot and an explosives expert in a protective “detonation suit” to explore the police station, as forensic police combed the area.

A Monash Health spokesman confirmed that one of the injured officers was taken to Dandenong Hospital in a stable condition, with non-life-threatening injuries. He was expected to be discharged today.

Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana visited Dandenong Hospital last night.

Police said the officer was recovering well but in shock.

The other injured officer was taken to The Alfred hospital in a stable condition.

The police station remains sealed off by police tape.

Police officers surrounded the area and diverted traffic from Heatherton Rd in both directions.

Onlookers were pushed further back as the taped-off area was extended.

A young boy who lives nearby said he had heard a single shot coming from the area of the police station.

Service station attendant Shafi Miya, who was working across the road when the incident unfolded, said he heard a loud shot.

Police cars and an ambulance descended on the scene shortly afterwards, he said.

He said the incident had been “pretty scary”.

It was not known what the threat against Mr Abbott may have involved or whether he had been involved in planning some kind of attack.

Mr Cornelius said it was “important that the community understands this is not an exercise in police seeking to single out particular individuals in the community”.

“Where we see individuals in the community behaving in a way which causes a concern to public safety, we have to reach out to those individuals and do what we can to understand what it is that they might be planning to do and put ourselves in a position to deal with those individuals in a way which is safe and in a way which promotes community safety,” he said.

The Prime Minister was last night on a plane from Canberra to New York to attend United Nations meetings dealing with the rising threat of IS.

Premier Denis Napthine left a question-and-answer forum at Parliament House early last night as the drama unfolded.

Endeavour Hills is in the seat of federal MP Anthony Byrne, deputy chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.

The area was also the scene of an AFP raid on people who were linked to the Al Furqan centre, a religious instruction school, in 2012.

“My main concern is for the welfare of the officers involved,” Mr Byrne said.

The homicide squad will investigate on behalf of the State Coroner, with the police Professional Standard Commands to oversee the investigation.

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Daily Tele 

St George of the Garden wrote on Sep 24^th, 2014 at 7:12am:


So because it's an article from the Daily Telegraph, it never happened? Wow, you're such a brain-dead m-o-r-o-n. 

cods wrote on Sep 24^th, 2014 at 7:16am:


He didn't really mean to stab two police officers - it was all a misunderstanding and his carrying of the ISIL flag in public was taken out of context - all a huge misunderstanding... according to the leftards.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 24^th, 2014 at 7:17am:



its got to be..... what else in the Tele to start with... ..I bet the smh has an entirely different version... everyone knows cops are terrorists and 18 yr olds carrying ISIL flags.and knives are NICE PEOPLE>

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An 18-year-old man has been shot dead by counter-terrorism police and two policemen have been stabbed in Melbourne's outer south-east.
Police said the two officers met the 18-year-old outside the Endeavour Hills police station before he lashed out at the officers with a sharp instrument. He then ran towards the police station and was shot.
Onlookers at the scene — who did not want to be named — said the dead man had been shouting insults at Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Australian government in general in the moments before he was shot.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/terror-suspect-shot-dead-after-two-police-officers-stabbed-in-endeavour-hills-20140924-10l5d4.html#ixzz3EB2UsP67

Its time wrote on Sep 24^th, 2014 at 7:32am:


Even if we did, and we did not, how does that justify the actions of a young man who has stabbed two Police Officers? Stop being an apologist for these bastards!

Another thread by whinging rightards.   FFS, a young man has been shot dead by trigger happy Victorian Police.  If you can shoot him to kill him, why couldn't you shoot to injure/disable him?.    Valueable information on why/how/who etc has been lost that may have revealed his motivation to do thios because once again trigger happy police in Victoria have aimed to kill rather than other methods.


Go back to whining about deaths in rooftops you bunch of sickos.  Have some thoughts and respect for the relatives of this obviously distressed young man who has been slaughtered.