{"id":20493,"date":"2025-07-25T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20493\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:40:09","slug":"perth-airport-evacuated-temperatures-plummet-to-15-year-low-joondalup-shopping-centre-attack-city-beach-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20493\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Airport evacuated; Temperatures plummet to 15-year low; Joondalup shopping centre attack; City Beach tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WA Police have just revealed details of an incident at a Joondalup shopping centre on Thursday afternoon, where a man carrying a knife allegedly tried to steal a car, before setting off several flares.<\/p>\n<p>About 3.40pm, the 29-year-old man from Banksia Grove allegedly attempted to steal a rideshare vehicle and then set off a flare which damaged the car.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flares were let off at Lakeside Joondalup shopping centre on Thursday afternoon. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9f25a1d80467fa7fff6b14e182996ad2a5dd64bc5ef33cd9fc3f64c6e6c13a61.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flares were let off at Lakeside Joondalup shopping centre on Thursday afternoon. Credit: WA Incident Alerts<\/p>\n<p>The driver was also allegedly assaulted and received facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The man then went inside the Lakeside Joondalup shopping centre and allegedly set off a second flare while carrying a knife.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained by security guards \u2013 one of whom sustained minor injuries to his knee \u2013 with members of the public also stepping in to help.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old also received a laceration to his hand and was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with several offences including attempted aggravated robbery, criminal damage and destruction of property, endangering the life, health or safety of a person and carrying or possessing an edged weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actions of all involved ensured no one was seriously injured and potentially prevented a tragic outcome,\u201d Assistant Commissioner Martin Haime told reporters at a press conference on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unsettling with previous events in other jurisdictions but the reality is, it was a very positive outcome yesterday due to the actions of the public and the security officers involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of people present may have filmed the incident, and we urge those people to contact 131 444.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police are treating the offending as a mental health incident. The man appeared in court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WA Police have just revealed details of an incident at a Joondalup shopping centre on Thursday afternoon, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-20493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}