A man has been arrested after a terrifying incident at a Perth shopping center where a man with a knife ran through the complex after a fight.
The altercation involving several men broke out at the Westfield Carousel shopping center in Cannington, in the city’s south-east, at around 3.30pm on Friday.
It was initially reported that a 20-year-old man had been cut in the face with a knife during a fight, but on Saturday police confirmed that the incident broke out after two men got into a fight and that one had a knife.
The knife was not used to hurt anyone, but a man suffered a facial injury when he was punched in the face, the Western Australia reported.
The knife was found at the scene and police began a search for the man wielding it.
In the video, a shirtless man (pictured) runs towards a group of people while wielding a large knife.
A man was arrested Saturday morning, but no charges have yet been filed.
“Cannington detectives would like to reassure the public that there is no ongoing threat to the public or cause for alarm,” WA Police said in a statement.
Terrifying footage of the incident showed a shirtless man running towards a group of people while wielding a large knife.
Among those who fled from the man was at least one child in a school uniform.
Shoppers screamed as they sought shelter in nearby stores.
The shopping complex was closed on Friday afternoon and several police units were notified to the center.
A shopper was with her 13-year-old son at Jay Jays clothing store when she saw the fight begin.
He said a group of men who appeared to be between 18 and 19 years old said something to another shopper.
‘This guy turned around and said ‘What did you say?’ “What did you say?” the woman, who wished to remain anonymous, told Daily Mail Australia.
She said the other man then met up with his friends and confronted the group, leading to a physical fight.
“Everyone was punching, ripping off their jerseys, getting down to business,” he said.
“We couldn’t get through and I didn’t want to go in the opposite direction and turn my back on them.
‘You do not know what to do. I told my son “back off, back off.”
The woman then claimed that one of the men pulled a 12-inch knife out of his pants.
“I told my son, ‘Run to the store and hide behind the counter.’ I panicked,” she said.
“I told the assistant, ‘Call security, call security, he has a knife.’
The mother and her son hid in a Footlocker store with two other shoppers and two employees while she begged them to close the doors.
The chaos began when a fight broke out between two men, one of them armed with a knife, at the Westfield Carousel shopping center in the south-east of the city around 3.30pm on Friday (pictured, shoppers locked in Kmart) .
“They have closed their doors, all the other stores have closed their doors and these people are still fighting,” the mother said.
The police arrived at the complex and closed it, and the buyers were not allowed to leave.
“The police were running up and down the elevators,” the mother said, adding that the experience had left her “shocked.”
“I didn’t expect him to pull out a knife,” he said.
“I thought they were going to throw a punch and when he pulled out the knife I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is going to get real now.'”
The tragic events of the Bondi Junction stabbing murders were on his mind.
“In recent weeks all we’ve heard about is stabbings or knife incidents,” he said.
“I’m glad that we and no one around us were hurt and that it wasn’t as bad as Sydney. It all happened very quickly.”
In the Bondi Junction stabbings, lone man Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured a dozen more on April 13.
This was followed by a series of knife crime incidents, including an assault on an Assyrian Christian bishop during a live-streamed church service.
Terrifying footage has emerged of the moment a man accused students after school at a Westfield shopping center in Perth.
A man ran with a knife after a fight at the Westfield Carousel shopping center (pictured) in Cannington, WA, on Friday afternoon.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, in Sydney’s west, on April 15 when a teenager wearing a hoodie approached the altar and allegedly stabbed him several times.
Horrific footage of the incident, which was streamed live on the church’s YouTube page, showed Bishop Emmanuel looking on in shock as the attacker suddenly rained blows on his face and head.
In Torquay, Victoria, a man who was allegedly threatened with a knife by former soldier Travis Johnston while holding his 19-month-old son said he immediately thought of the tragedy at Bondi Junction.
And earlier this month, surfer Kye Schaefer, 22, was stabbed at Park Beach in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, while still wearing his wetsuit, at around 6.40am.