[DailyMail] The shooter at the centre of the Parramatta police HQ attack was a 15-year-old boy from a middle eastern background. The 'radicalised' youth bumped off a civilian police IT expert at close range before being killed by a police officer. En route to the killing the youth, originally from Iran, had visited Parramatta Mosque, The Daily Telegraph reported. Witnesses of the attack on Friday afternoon said after the killing, the teen paraded in front of the cop shoppe with his weapon chanting 'Allah, Allah', it was reported.
Police were searching for the killer's family, who were believed to have left the area. He carried no identification and it was believed his brother contacted police with his identity, the Daily Telegraph reported. The lone gunman rubbed out a civilian police IT expert at close range outside the Parramatta police headquarters in a targeted attack on Friday which has been described as a 'brutal' and 'callous murder'. The assailant, dressed all in black, fired a number of shots at special constables guarding the NSW Police station in Sydney, before he was bumped off and killed by one of the officers.
Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said the civilian employee was 'simply leaving work' when he was shot in the back of the head by the gunman who was wearing 'dark trousers and a flowing top'. On Friday he refused to be drawn on whether the double shooting was terror-related, but admitted that officers from within the counter-terrorism command were working alongside the homicide squad. The commissioner revealed a number of warnings had been sent round to police in the past two years reminding them to be 'vigilant' about attacks, but assured that the people of NSW were 'safe'. |