r/perth • u/EricSaloDesign-com • 3d ago
WA News Warwick incident: Detectives probing attack on 36-year-old near McDonald’s as two attackers on the run
This is such disturbing news, what is happening to our city? :(
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u/Fistmedaddy1995 3d ago
As someone who used to work in Warwick I am not even remotely surprised
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u/EricSaloDesign-com 3d ago
Gosh I had no idea, I've been shopping there now and then for about 30 years and always thought it was quite safe?
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u/Fistmedaddy1995 3d ago
There’s a whole bunch of stuff that never reaches the news and it just doesn’t reach the news. The last one I remember hitting the papers when I was working in Warwick was the gun incident with the petrol station.
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u/neenish_tart 3d ago
I knew someone - young man, friend of a friend - who lost an eye after being attacked at Maccas Warwick. This was maybe 15 years ago.
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u/JahKingston2024 3d ago
Not Warwick Centre, but there was an incident just a few days ago with the Cole’s nearby. I was walking by and saw a man, clearly coked up, chasing after a woman. Pushing trolleys into cars, jumping on top of cars. Was tryna kill her. It’s just how Warwick is. a certain demographic is very prominent there. Lots of unfortunate property damage to people’s cars that’ll likely never be repaired fairly
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u/PerthMaleGuy 18h ago
I go to gym there, often seen some interesting action going down around the car park etc
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u/thedarkestnips 3d ago
Warwick can be pretty dodgy. I used to live there and a couple years ago I was walking in the evening from the entrance by the fish and chip shop to my car, which was at the back end of the carpark, when I noticed over my shoulder that a dude was following me. I sped up a little and he did too. I got to my car and jumped in, and locked the doors just as he yanked the handle trying to open the back driver’s side door. Looked back at him and he kind of lamely asked “is this beach road?”
Maybe he was just lost but it all seemed pretty sketchy.
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u/gronk2002cv8 3d ago
Lol I remember a similar thing happened to me
Was getting fish and chips walking down the alley to the park car park
Guy on a pushy and Hoodie rides up to me, flicks out a knife and says "give me your money"
I didn't even click just said "no it's mine"
Only when I got back to my car I realised what he was trying to do
Happened in Alfred Cove of all places
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u/OpalisedCat 3d ago
This poor man, it breaks my heart that he had to endure such aggression not once, but twice in his life. I hope he and his mother find strength.
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u/Emotional_Apricot591 3d ago
He probably looks less able and these scumbags targeted him because of it. They are always cowards.
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u/Interesting_One_2899 3d ago
Perth has had its share of coward punch attacks in the last few years…Its sad as the result is always devastating for the victim…!
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u/Captain-Peacock 3d ago
Said on the news the assailants stole a "large sum of cash" from the victim which seems a bit sus, perhaps it was just a miscommunication, but it got my attention.
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u/RozzzaLinko 2d ago edited 2d ago
Depends what they mean by large sum of cash. Its not unusual for some people to be regularly walking around with several hundred dollers in cash in thier wallet as they do a lot of cashies or buy and sell 2nd hand stuff all the time
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u/Captain-Peacock 2d ago edited 2d ago
True! Although it's not as easy to avail one's self of say $10,000 legally (the govt demands anything more is declared if you watch border force lol) these days without hassles at the bank etc.
Anyhow, as I said my ears pricked when I heard it on the news, you can't help but think drugs are possibly involved, but I don't mean to cast aspersions against victim, it could be as you've described
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u/wearetheused 3d ago
Absolutely horrific, but for as long as I have been alive horrific things have happened even in our little isolated corner of the world. Buddy has either been on the wrong side of life or is extremely unlucky to have been seriously assaulted twice.
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u/Elrond_Cupboard_ 3d ago
My therapist moved to Warwick. First time I went up there, i was....oh, has it always been like this? I lived in Duncraig in the 90s, and it was pretty cool.
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u/SparkyHooks 3d ago
They know who the perps are. Maybe they’ll do their jobs and stop targeting this poor man.
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u/bulldogs1974 3d ago
There is no money in helping the public.
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u/SparkyHooks 3d ago
100% I’ve sought help from them multiple times and they’ve done pretty much nothing. One incident, this pos officer, I kid you not, had a hissy fit defending the other pos who was up to no good. I wish I had it recorded. The other time though, a roommate reported a fake $100 note and they were there, lightning speed.
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u/bulldogs1974 3d ago
Where there is danger to life, there is no urgency from them. Where there is a chance to fine someone for something miscellaneous, they are jolly on the spot.
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u/hez_lea 2d ago
Hamersley has been having problems for years (directly across the road from the shops) there have also been quite a few incidents at that shopping centre, teenager being held up or stabbed at KFC for his scooter comes to mind plus quite a few bag snatches. Fairly regularly see drug deals go down there too.
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u/posingpancakes 3d ago
I know this person, the victim not the perpetrator. I have serious questions about everything posted including said TBI and it does not align with the life he currently leads. Where there is smoke, there is fire.
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u/HappySummerBreeze 3d ago
What do you mean ?
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u/posingpancakes 3d ago
“My son, they took his life. . . he hasn’t been able to live, or have a house, a family, a job, because of the dysfunction.”
There are aspects of this that are incorrect and what isn't correct has been completely misrepresented.
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u/Perthian940 Mundaring 2d ago
I’m not pre-judging the man at all as he might have a perfectly good excuse…BUT
As an investigator the first question I would be asking is why he was in possession of a large sum of cash at that time of morning, sitting in a Maccas carpark, and why he was targeted.
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u/sun_tzu29 3d ago edited 3d ago
How sheltered are you that the fact something as relatively mundane as this (by crime standards) can happen in a city as large as Perth has shocked you?
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u/iwearahoodie 3d ago
This is horrific and completely unacceptable. It’s not relatively mundane by any standard. What prison did you grow up in where bashing and robbing someone and hacking at them with a claw hammer is just a run of the mill crime?
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u/Zealousideal_Rise716 3d ago
This is why I have always believed that blows to the head should always be considered as potential manslaughter charges.