Queensland man Joel Cauchi, 40, is the murderer who went on a stabbing spree at Bondi Junction Westfield, killing six people and injuring at least a dozen more before police shot him dead.
Cauchi killed five women and one man as he rampaged through the busy shopping centre brandishing a knife in Sydney’s east on Saturday afternoon.
Police believe Cauchi lived with schizophrenia. There was no clear motive, but they were investigating a potential history of targeting women.
NSW Premier Chris Minns said the “horrifying and violent attack on innocent people” would be subject to a major criminal investigation to “prevent acts like this from happening again”.
He praised the “instinctive bravery” of Inspector Amy Scott, who fatally shot Cauchi, saying the police officer ran towards danger and “without a shadow of a doubt, saved many, many lives”.
Source: Bondi Junction stabbing: Joel Cauchi identified as attacker
Absolutely shocking – my heart goes out to the families of those people killed and injured.
And it’s always bloody males who do this!
Isn’t it time that the health system had more & better skilled staff & systems to treat people w mental illness? There must be some way to treat these imbecile males so as to prevent their murderous behaviours.
When I saw the news yesterday, before he was identified publicly, the Australian governement said that though they weren’t sure of the motive, they were pretty sure it wasn’t terrorism. Today, having identified a mentally ill male who targeted women, the word “terrorism” disappears entirely.
But it is terrorism to systematically target a single class of innocent people for savagery. That class is women. That class is left out of Scotland’s new “civil rights” law. That class does not exist for purposes of being granted political asylum in the US — the very notion of “gender asylum” is strongly resisted. As attorney Sunny Kim wrote in an article about this resistance: “One possible objection to the recognition of rape (and other acts of violence against women) as persecution is the near-universal occurrence of rape.” Violence against women as a class is so widespread, governments won’t address it, because it would overwhelm the system.