Numan Haider. Source: Supplied
POLICE are on high alert for revenge attacks against more officers following the shooting of teenage terror suspect Numan Haider.
As Chief Commissioner Ken Lay wrote to Victoria's 13,000 police officers, warning them to be prepared for any situation, it emerged:
AN EYEWITNESS has made a statement to police that another man in Islamic dress was near the scene in Endeavour Hills where the attack took place.
POLICE said they had no evidence of other parties being involved in the attack on the police, but that the investigation was in its early stages and interviews with family, friends and associates were being conducted.
SOURCES said the teen had earlier tried to lure the police to other locations, including a Hungry Jack's.
HAIDER had been picked up in an intelligence sweep of "chatter" about potential threats to Parliament House, and had followed the movements of government officials, including Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
THE teen's passport was cancelled a week ago after he made plans to fly to Syria.
Numan Haider's body is removed from the scene in Endeavour Hills. Picture: Getty Images
HIS rage may have been further fuelled by raids on his "Muslim brothers" in Sydney and a romance with a woman whom he converted to Islam that failed in recent weeks.
DEFENCE Force families were told to be on high alert after a soldier's house was approached in Sydney.
AND while police said there had been no specific threats about beheadings some police suspect that this was Haider's intention, and that it occur in a public place or on film.
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The Islamic Council of Victoria refused to immediately condemn the dead teenager's actions.
Mr Lay defended the counter-terrorism officers' handling of the confrontation with Haider.
Last Thursday, Haider, 18, was one of five people seen thrusting brochures into shoppers' hands at the Dandenong mall, where he was often seen wearing an Islamic State-style flag.
Witnesses recalled seeing up to 15 police, who were in the mall, surround the teen outside the Hub arcade.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives at Westchester Airport in the US.
On Tuesday night Haider, who had an ISIL-style flag on him and a large knife tucked into his belt, attacked the two counter-terrorism agents with a small blade after shaking hands with them.
The Afghanistan-born teen, who has links to extremist Islamic group Al-Furqan, was hit in the head by a single bullet after stabbing the AFP agent in the head, neck and abdomen.
The Herald Sun has learned that the officers, whose identities will not be released, had attempted to find the teen at his Endeavour Hills home, which they searched, before arranging with him to meet outside the police station.
Haider's family would not comment about the incident yesterday. Relatives said his 20-year-old brother was "angry'' and that his mother, Suraya, had barely spoken since learning of her son's death.
A relative said the family had contacted police asking for Haider's body to be returned for burial.
Details surrounding the shooting death of an 18-year-old terror suspect in Melbourne have started to emerge.
Mr Abbott said the incident showed some Australians were capable "of very extreme acts" and would do their countrymen harm.
"The suspect did mount a fierce attack on both officers," Mr Abbott said.
"Obviously, this indicates that there are people in our community who are capable of very extreme acts. It also indicates that the police will be constantly vigilant to protect us against people who would do us harm," said the PM, who is in New York.
An eyewitness who saw a Muslim man in Islamic dress at the scene of the attack, said he saw Haider backing his Nissan Pulsar into a parking space and getting out shortly before the rampage.
The witness, who did not want to be named, said the last thing he heard was an officer shouting "put it down, put it down'' before a shot rang out.
"He was all over the shop when he was reversing ... it's like he was trying to (position his car) to get away.
"There were other people there — a man in white, an Islamic man, 50 to 60 metres away," he said.
"He may not have had anything to do with it. There were a couple of people there and that one guy stuck out."
Those close to the investigation said the officers had called the teenager to ask him for a meeting to give him some "life advice''.
Mr Lay yesterday said that the two police officers had given Haider options about a meeting, and he had also given them options, before it was decided to meet outside the Endeavour Hills police station.
Haider told the police officers he did not want to meet in the foyer, after becoming aware they had searched his house on Tuesday.
It is believed the officers had tried to talk to Haider at his home but he was out.
Several meeting points had been discussed with Haider, including at a local Hungry Jack's.
Several sources told the Herald Sun investigators are pursuing suspicions that up to three parties were involved in Tuesday's unprovoked attack.
Last Thursday, Haider was seen outside Dandenong Plaza, wearing camouflage pants and waving a black and white flag.
Intelligence services had found that Haider wanted to go to Syria to join the civil war against Bashar al-Assad's Government this month. This resulted in the suspension of his passport last week.
Both wounded police officers have had surgery, and were in stable conditions.
Police said they'd had "no choice" but to shoot the teen dead after being stabbed.
Mr Abbott was briefed on the incident while travelling to New York to attend United Nations meetings dealing with the Islamic State threat.
Harun Mehicevic, the leader of Al-Furqan in Springvale, refused to confirm that Haider had been involved with the group.
Mr Lay has written to all Victoria Police members warning them to be alert.
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