Reuters
Folks provide flowers for the victims of Saturday’s stabbings at Bondi Junction in Sydney, Australia, on April 14, 2024.
Australian police on Sunday recognized the perpetrator of a Sydney procuring heart stabbing that killed six individuals, saying no intelligence would recommend the assault was pushed by ideology.
The offender within the Saturday afternoon assault at Westfield Procuring Centre at Bondi Junction was 40-year-old Joel Cauchi from Queensland, New South Wales (NSW) Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke informed reporters.
Cooke mentioned the person was identified to authorities in his house state and suffered from psychological well being points.
“There’s nonetheless up to now nothing that we’ve got, no info we’ve got acquired, no proof we’ve got recovered, no intelligence that we’ve got gathered that will recommend that this was pushed by any explicit motivation, ideology or in any other case,” Cooke mentioned.
“We’re persevering with to work by way of the profiling of the offender however very clearly to us at this stage it could seem that that is associated to the psychological well being of the person concerned,” he added.
Emergency companies had been known as to the procuring heart Saturday afternoon following studies that a number of individuals had been stabbed, NSW Police mentioned in a press launch on Sunday.
A police officer attended and was allegedly confronted by Cauchi, armed with a knife. Cauchi allegedly lunged on the officer, earlier than he was shot lifeless, in response to the press launch.
5 different individuals, together with 4 ladies, believed to be aged between 20 and 55 and a person aged in his 30s, who had been within the heart, died on the scene.
Twelve others, together with 9 ladies, two males and a 9-month-old youngster, struggling stab wounds, had been handled by paramedics and brought to numerous Sydney hospitals.
A 38-year-old lady who was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a crucial situation has since died.
Police are conscious that different individuals have additionally sought medical therapy for numerous accidents, the press launch mentioned.
