Westfield Bondi mall attack: Sydney knife suspect identified by police
Source: bbc
Westfield Bondi mall attack: Sydney knife suspect identified by police
11 minutes ago
By Jay Savage, Katy Watson and Simon Atkinson,in Sydney
A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction...................
Five women and a man died. Several others, including a baby, were injured.
Authorities said the attack was most likely "related to the mental health of the individual involved".
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He said Mr Cauchi, who was from Queensland, was previously known to police and had bought a storage unit in Sydney.
The assistant commissioner reiterated that the attacker did not appear to be motivated by "any particular ideology or motivation".......................................
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68810428
What a horrible mess.
'A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.
Joel Cauchi, 40, walked through the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex...fatally wounding five women and a man.'
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Seriously! His name Joel Cauchi #BondiJunction #bondiattack
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SYDNEY POLICE CONFIRM MASS STABBING WAS NOT TERRORISM.
The man was known to law
enforcement and did not hold "terrorist motivations or ideology"
Translation: They found out it wasnt a Muslim and so are no longer calling it a terrorist attack.
Now you know, for the exact same attack they use the word terrorist if the perpetrator is a Muslim.
Mainstream media exposed
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(17,175 posts)Detectives are investigating the life and background of 40-year-old Joel Cauchi who killed six people during a stabbing attack at a busy Sydney shopping centre.
NSW Police said the man from Queensland was shot dead by a senior police officer inside Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon, after setting upon several people inside the complex with a knife and triggering an evacuation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-14/nsw-police-investigate-man-stabbing-killed-bondi-junction-sydney/103705294
As panicked shoppers fled Westfield Bondi Junction and an alarm sounded, a lone female police officer ran towards the man armed with a knife who had engaged in a stabbing spree.
As she approached, the man refused to drop the blade that he was brandishing, described by witnesses as a large kitchen knife.
All she said was: Put it down. Just once. Then she shot him in the chest and he went down, witness Jason Dixon said.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/enormous-courage-hero-police-officer-who-ended-the-bondi-stabbing-rampage-20240413-p5fjlt.html
Of the 12 patients:
Four are at St Vincent's Hospital, with "some" in a critical condition in the intensive care unit
Two are at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Three are at the Prince of Wales Hospital
One at St George Hospital
One at Royal North Shore Hospital
Nine-month-old baby girl at Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick who is in a "critical but stable condition"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-14/several-killed-in-mass-stabbing-at-westfield-bondi-junction/103705354#live-blog-post-83243