On 13 April , year-old Joel Cauchi stabbed and killed six people and injured a further twelve in the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales , Australia.
Five women and one man died, while the injured included a nine-month-old girl. Cauchi was later fatally shot by a police inspector. Westfield Bondi Junction is a major shopping centre in Sydney's eastern suburbs , and is the fourth-biggest shopping centre in New South Wales.
The attack took place on a Saturday afternoon when the area was filled with hundreds of visitors. According to the NSW Police Force , the perpetrator entered Westfield Bondi Junction at around pm AEST wearing a sports jersey, [ 6 ] leaving the centre before returning 10 minutes later with what onlookers described as a centimetre 12 in knife. Eyewitnesses said that he was behaving erratically, and video clips from security cameras and bystanders filming showed the perpetrator lunging at some shoppers with his weapon while ignoring others.
Several shoppers confronted the man, barring his passage to certain areas, as well as grabbing tools from nearby stores to defend themselves. The stabbings began as the perpetrator moved through the shopping centre after he returned at pm. The perpetrator was fatally shot in the chest by a lone police inspector , Amy Scott, who confronted him on the building's fifth floor after being directed by Guerot and another French national, Silas Despreaux. After he lunged at her with a knife, Scott shot him.
She began to perform CPR on him immediately after he fell. At pm, NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke, in a press conference, initially confirmed five victims had been killed along with the perpetrator, while several others remained critically injured. Five victims died at the scene. Twelve others were hospitalised, including a nine-month-old girl who underwent surgery, [ 20 ] and her mother, [ 21 ] who later died in hospital, [ 22 ] raising the death toll of victims to six.
