A man shot dead by police along a Brisbane motorway is being treated as a suspected solo terrorist and a double murderer.
Raghe Abdi, 22, was killed after he allegedly lunged at police and was shot on Thursday morning along Logan Motorway.
Deputy Commissioner Tracy Lindford said the incident was being treated as a terrorist act but stressed he acted alone.
Nine hours after Mr Abdi was shot dead, police discovered the bodies of two elderly people in a home at nearby Parkinson that they said he was linked to.
“We are now treating this matter as act of terror,” Ms Linford said.
“Examinations of the scene have led us to determine that this is a double homicide.”
Ms Linford said after examining the shooting scene and the dead couple’s residence, “there was a direct link between the two matters”.
She said an item of Mr Abdi’s was found at the elderly couple’s house.
“I want to stress that nothing else has been uncovered to indicate that there are any other persons involved in this terrorism event,” Ms Linford said.
“Our focus from this point will be to continue to investigate the acoustics of Mr Abdi leading up this event.”
Police were first alerted to an issue when Mr Abdi’s tracking device sent out a signal to say it had been tampered with.
It was later found discarded in bushland near the elderly couple’s house.
She said police only checked on the elderly couple after they had received a call about them missing a medical appointment.
After finding the couple dead, police then searched and doorknocked nearby houses as a precautionary measure.
Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Scott Lee said the investigation now included his force as well as QPS.
He said Mr Abdi came to their attention when he attempted to travel to Somalia to “involve himself in foreign incursions offences” last year.
“There was information we received in relation to his ideology … and intending to travel offshore and we allege potential links to Al-Shabaab, which is obviously an Islamic State terrorist organisation.”
“We have been overnight doorknocking the area to find out if anyone heard or saw anything and checking on people’s welfare.”
Earlier, Mr Abdi’s lawyer called on authorities to release evidence that he was an Islamic State sympathiser, saying the police PR machine has gone into overdrive.
Mr Abdi, according to Ms Linford, yelled “Allahu Akbar” and lunged at police with a knife when he was shot.
Mr Abdi had been linked to IS after being arrested by counter-terrorism police at Brisbane Airport last year.
Mr Adbi‘s lawyer and president of the Australian Council of Civil Liberties, Terry O’Gorman, told NewsWire there was no substantiated evidence that he was an IS sympathiser when he fronted court.
He said claims made in The Courier-Mail that bodycam footage showed Mr Abdi yelling “Allahu Akbar”, Arabic for God is Great, should be released.
“The was absolutely no evidence put forward about the allegations (that he was an IS sympathiser) in court,” Mr O’Gorman told NCA NewsWire.
“The only evidence was that one person claimed that he said he had some sympathy for ISIS.
“There is no other evidence to back up that assertion and that person was never cross-examined.
“If the police are claiming he said that then the evidence should be produced, otherwise it’s simply not credible.”
He said police were renowned for releasing information after a shooting that the person was known to police.
“It’s a typical a police tactic when they shoot and kill someone, their police PR machine goes into overdrive to put that person in the worst possible light,” he said.
“If there is hard information to that effect (an IS sympathiser), well fair enough for the comment to be made, but it is made on the comment of what he said to one person, and he denied that in his instructions to me that he said that.”
The shooting was about nine hours before police made a welfare check and found an 87-year-old man and an 86-year-old woman dead at a Parkinson home. They had suffered significant injuries.
The Ethical Standards Command is investigating the police shooting, which will be overseen by the Crime and Corruption Commission.
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