Raids On 6–7 April 2017, two teenage boys aged 15 and 16 went on a rampage in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, first stabbing a service station attendant to death, then violently attacking four people in a spree that continued for several hours.
Shortly before midnight on 6 April 2017, two boys attacked a service station attendant at Queanbeyan with a steak knife.
[3][4] Based on DNA evidence, police confirmed that the letters were written in the victim's blood.
[10][11] The two were charged with the stabbing murder of the service station employee, carjacking, and a malicious assault during the spree that lasted several hours.
[5] On 28 June 2019 a magistrate lifted a "a non-publication and suppression order" that had prevented media coverage of court proceedings.
In lifting the order, the magistrate questioned the justification for imposing it in the first place, asserting that open courts are a foundation of justice.
[14] A 29-year-old Pakistani national living in Australia was stabbed to death in the petrol station where he worked.
[16] Another victim was stabbed in the chest in Karabar after he pulled his car over to the side of the road to see if someone needed help when the two boys flagged him down.
[10] Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the attack as shocking and a matter which underlines many of the concerns raised in this field, further stating that police had uncovered evidence of "sufficient concern" to require the involvement of the joint counter-terrorism police team.