2015 Parramatta shooting

2015 Parramatta shooting
NSW Police Headquarters on Charles Street, Parramatta
Location	New South Wales Police Force NSW Police Headquarters (The Curtis Cheng Centre) Parramatta
Date	2 October 2015 4:30 p.m. (AEST)
Target	NSW Police Force
Attack type	Gun attack
Weapons	S&W .38 revolver
Deaths	2 (including the perpetrator)
Victims	Curtis Cheng
Perpetrators	Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar
Motive	Islamic terrorism

Coordinates: 33°49′02″S 151°00′31″E / 33.817191°S 151.008539°E / -33.817191; 151.008539

On 2 October 2015, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old boy, shot and killed Curtis Cheng, an unarmed police civilian finance worker, outside the New South Wales Police Force headquarters in Parramatta, Australia. Jabar was subsequently shot and killed by special constables who were protecting the headquarters. As of 27 April 2016^[update], four other men have been charged in relation to the shooting.

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione described the event as a politically motivated act of terrorism.

In the days leading up to the shooting, police reported that there had been an increase of "chatter" about a potential attack occurring. An alert had been circulated to all police, ordering them to wear their firearms on them at all times, even at their desk. Police are believed to have had intelligence of a potential attack on the Parramatta headquarters up to 12 months prior, although it was unknown if that was linked to the 2 October 2015 incident. In the days before the shooting, police and security officers had seen an individual taking photographs of the entrance to Police Headquarters.

The NSW Police Headquarters is home to several crime commands, including those of the homicide, drug, Middle Eastern Organised Crime, and various gang squads. It is still unknown if these were the potential targets of the gunman. Police investigated the crime as a "terrorism offence."

On 2 October 2015, a 15-year-old boy carried a S&W .38 revolver to the street outside NSW Police Headquarters at Parramatta, walking past an unarmed plainclothes female detective. At 4:30 p.m., the assailant killed 58-year-old unarmed police civilian accountant Curtis Cheng as he was walking out of the building. The shooter remained at the scene and continued firing into the police headquarters. He was shot dead by one of three special constables who responded to the shooting.