Auburn police station shooting: Counter terrorism detectives Indian man stabbing cleaner
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Five minutes of horror as a ‘frantic’ cutler repeatedly stabs a train cleaner then pounces on two policemen before being shot twice in the chest inside the police station.
- Indian man, 32, entered the police station with a knife
- The officers shot the man and he died.
- Anti-terrorism detectives investigate
A “frantic” knife-wielding man brutally stabbed a cleaner on a train platform before officers shot him dead in the reception area of a nearby police station five minutes later when he allegedly charged two policemen.
A 28-year-old male cleaner was starting his shift at Auburn railway station in western Sydney on Tuesday when he was randomly attacked by a 32-year-old Indian migrant at around 12:03am.
The cleaner was stabbed in the left arm and fell to the ground before the other man stabbed him again in the hip.
Moments later, two police officers responding to the incident were walking in front of the nearby Auburn Police Station when they were confronted by the 32-year-old man wielding a knife.
He was ‘hyperventilating’ and charged at the two officers: one shot and killed him.
The eerie scene inside Auburn Police Station in western Sydney on Tuesday morning after the knife-wielding man was shot dead in the reception area.
A man with a knife was shot to death after walking into a police station and threatening officers with the incident following a stabbing at the Auburn train station.
Officers provided first aid to the attacker until paramedics arrived on scene. He was taken to Westmead Hospital where he later died.
Deputy Police Commissioner Stuart Smith said the 32-year-old man, who has yet to be formally identified, arrived in Australia on a student visa from India in 2019.
He said there was no warning about the ‘frantic’ attack on the cleaner.
The knife-wielding man was seen ‘hyperventilating’ when he arrived at the police station.
Counter-terrorism investigators are involved in the investigation of the incident, which Deputy Commissioner Smith said was just part of the standard response to a critical incident investigation.
He was then shot before officers rendered first aid until paramedics arrived on scene.
The injured cleaner was treated by paramedics at the Auburn train station before being transferred to Westmead Hospital in stable condition.
Deputy Commissioner Smith said the Indian national was known to police, but only through Covid-19 lockdown compliance checks early in the pandemic.
He added that there was no criminal behavior related to those interactions, and that they were “benign” and at this stage not related to the current investigation.
“We will leave no stone unturned in establishing the intent of this individual,” Deputy Commissioner Smith said.
A critical incident team made up of officers from the State Crime Command Homicide Squad will now investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the discharge of a police firearm.
That investigation will be subject to independent review.
The man threatened police after entering the Auburn police station in western Sydney at 12:08 a.m. Tuesday.