(AAP) Attacked by a terrorist in Somalia, Mohammed Abdi sought protection and relocated to Australia.
Years later his son Raghe Abdi was shot dead by police on a highway south of Brisbane in what was described as a “terrorism event.”
Investigations suggested Abdi killed elderly couple Maurice and Zoe Antill at their home before he was shot the next morning on the Logan Motorway wielding a knife and yelling “Allahu Akbar.”
His father Mr Abdi on Tuesday told an inquest into their December 2020 deaths that he did not know why his son “chose this path.”
He said a terrorist attack was one of the reasons why he had left Somalia.
