NSW Police Tasered a man after he allegedly stabbed and killed a paramedic who was finishing up his night shift and getting food at a McDonald’s in Sydney’s south-west on Friday morning. Police were called to the fast-food restaurant on Queen Street in Campbelltown about 5.30am after the man’s colleague sounded a distress signal.
Officers arrived to find the paramedic with stab wounds. He was treated at the scene and taken to Liverpool Hospital, but later died. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon said that when police arrived officers were confronted by a 21-year-old with a knife.
Lanyon said officers were forced to Taser the man, who is from Raby, to assist the injured officer. He was arrested and taken to Campbelltown police station for questioning.
NSW Ambulance Commissioner Dominic Morgan said the victim had been a paramedic for about 12 months and was about “an hour or two away” from finishing his shift when the incident occurred. ished a case at the local hospital, and were literally just grabbing some sustenance any person would expect that they would do and going about their job,” he said.
Morgan said authorities had already met the family. “This is a young man, who his father tells me from the age of five years old knew that he wanted to be a NSW Ambulance paramedic,” he said.
“He’d been with us for a relatively short period of time, but had recently found out he was being posted back to south-west Sydney.
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