The Australian Police reported this Sunday that The perpetrator of the knife attack carried out on Saturday in a Sydney shopping center, who killed six people, was identified as Joel Cauchi, a 40-year-old man of age who suffered from mental health problems.
“We continue working on profiling the criminal, but (…) “It would seem that this is related to the mental health of the individual involved,” said Assistant Commissioner of the Australian State of New South Wales Police, Anthony Cooke, at a news conference in Sydney.
Police enter Westfield Bondi shopping centre.
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Cooke explained that Cauchi traveled last month from his place of residence, in the neighboring state of Queensland, to the city of Sydney, where he rented “a small” warehouse, although the reasons for this attack that shocked people have not yet been clarified. Australia.
“It is clear that the investigations will continue throughout the day,” said the senior police officer, insisting that Saturday's tragic incident is not linked to “any particular ideology or motivation.”
Likewise, Cook said that The New South Wales Police are trying to contact relatives of two of the six deceased abroad.
According to the police report on Saturday, the assailant entered the popular Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center at 3:10 p.m. local time, left shortly after and returned about ten minutes later, when he attacked several people with a knife.
The injuries caused the immediate death of four women and one man, while another stabbed woman died hours later in the hospital, and left twelve others injured, including a baby.
After receiving the alert call, a police inspector went to the scene, where she confronted the aggressor, who turned towards her with a knife in his hand, so the agent “fired a firearm” at him.
The agent performed resuscitation maneuvers on the suspect while waiting for medical personnel, who were unable to revive him.
The nine-month-old girl injured in the attack is doing well after undergoing emergency surgery but his mother was one of the six fatalities, according to his family this Sunday.
The shopping center will remain closed on Sunday following the attack.
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In a statement reproduced by ABC state television, the girl's relatives indicated that “after hours of surgery,” The little girl “is fine now” and they mourned the death of her mother, identified today as Ashlee Good, a 38-year-old woman.
“Today we are overwhelmed by the terrible loss of Ashlee, a beautiful mother, daughter, sister, partner, friend and exceptional human being in general and much more,” reads the statement, in which the family members appreciate the support from the population and the effort of the medical team that saved the baby's life.
This Sunday, the Australian media reported witnesses' accounts of how the mother, badly injured after being stabbed and Knowing that he could not take care of the little girl, he approached a stranger and handed him the child.who had also been stabbed.
“The baby was stabbed. The mother was stabbed and she came to me and threw the baby at me,” the man to whom the baby was given told Channel 9 News.
In addition to Good, the Police identified this Sunday four other fatal victims of the attack carried out on Saturday: so far the authorities have identified Dawn Singleton, a 25-year-old woman, daughter of millionaire Australian businessman John Singleton; Faraz Tahir, a Pakistani man who worked as a security guard; Jade Young, a 47-year-old woman; and Pikri Darchia, a 55-year-old designer.
Only one man, Tahir, died in the attack, which has given rise to speculation about Cauchi's special fixation on women when he carried out his attack, although the Police prefer not to give details on this at the moment.
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