Melbourne Islamist gunman was meth-head with criminal history
- 7 years ago
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — An Islamist extremist shot dead by Australian police after an armed stand-off had recently got out of jail and was involved in a state-run deradicalization program in the six months prior to the deadly attack.
Yacqub Khayre, 29, lured a sex worker to the Buckingham Serviced Apartment on Monday in order to hold her hostage, The Age reported.
He then shot and killed the serviced apartment's clerk as a trap to ambush officers. Khayre then called the national emergency number and Channel 7, claiming that he had a bomb and a hostage.
Khayre was shot dead by police following a stand-off.
Khayre was an Australian citizen who came to the country as a refugee, aged three. He was a drug and alcohol abuser with a long criminal history, the Age reported.
Police said he was referred to a program to counter Islamic extremism after he was let out of jail in December last year after serving four years for a violent home invasion.
He was reportedly radicalized in 2008. A year later, he travelled to Somalia to train with terrorist organisation al-Shabaab.
Yacqub Khayre, 29, lured a sex worker to the Buckingham Serviced Apartment on Monday in order to hold her hostage, The Age reported.
He then shot and killed the serviced apartment's clerk as a trap to ambush officers. Khayre then called the national emergency number and Channel 7, claiming that he had a bomb and a hostage.
Khayre was shot dead by police following a stand-off.
Khayre was an Australian citizen who came to the country as a refugee, aged three. He was a drug and alcohol abuser with a long criminal history, the Age reported.
Police said he was referred to a program to counter Islamic extremism after he was let out of jail in December last year after serving four years for a violent home invasion.
He was reportedly radicalized in 2008. A year later, he travelled to Somalia to train with terrorist organisation al-Shabaab.