Hero cop fatally shoots knife-wielding maniac who killed at least 5, injured several including small child in popular Sydney mall
A heroic police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding maniac who killed fiꦜve people and sta𒁏bbed several others — including a small child — inside a popular Sydney mall Saturday afternoon.
Authorities received calls around 3:30 p.m. local time that a knife-wielding man was attacking people at Westfield Bondi Junction, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said during a presꦐs conference.
Footage obtained by showed the suspect, wearing a gold and green rugby jeꦍrsey and shorts, brandishing a long knife and approaching several horrified shoppers.
Hundreds of people were captured running for the mall’s exits during the stabbing spree.
At around 3:10 p.m., the suspect “mo💎ved through the center” in a crowd of about “nine people” inside the mall and launched his attack, causing “harm to those people we believe by stabbing them,” Cooke said.
A nearby officer was alerted of the attack by fleeing shoppers and confronted the suspect when he was on “level five” of tꦯhe mall.
“He turned, faced her, raised a knife, and the officer opened fire, kill🐎ing the suspect,🎀” Cooke recalled.
Australia’s Prime Minster Anthony Albanese praised the bravery of t🅷he lone female police officer for entering the mall “by herself” and killing the suspect before he could cause any more harm to innocent civilians.
“She is c♐ertainly a hero. There is no doubt that she saved lives,” Albanese said.
A 38-year-old mother, whose 9-month-old 💖baby was stabbed in the attack, died hours later at the hospital, ဣaccording to the outlet.
The baby’s condition is still unknown.
Two witnesses told how they helped save the defenseless baby after the suspect also stabbed the child’s mother.
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“The mom got stabbed, and the mom♒ came over with the baby and threw it at me, and I was holding the baby,” on🎃e of the men told the outlet.
The two men said they began “compressing the baby” and the mother to stop𒊎 the bleeding.
“There’s a lot of blood on the floor… I hope the baby is alright,” they said.
Cooke shared there was no indication of motivation for the act but🙈 was not rul𓃲ing out if it was terrorist-related.
“NSW ambulance assisted in transporting eight patients to various hospital🎉 facilities across Sydney, and assessed a total of six patients who had been deemed injured on the scene,” he said.
𒁏“Things are very, very raw at th𝔍is time, and we’re in the early stages of the investigation.”
The suspect is beli♔eved to have acted alone, Cooke said, adding that the🐼re was no further threat to the area.
Several posts on social mꦉedia s๊howed crowds fleeing the mall and police cars and emergency services rushing to the area.
Albanese condemned the “horrific” attack on the innocent shoppers.
“The devastating scenes at Bondi Junction are beyond words or understanding. Australians will be shocked this evening,” Albanese said. “This was a horrific act of violence, indiscriminately targeted at innocent people going about an ordinary Saturday doing their shopping tonight.
“It’s such a shock this happens in a country such as ours, where people should be able to go about th𝕴eir shopping on a Saturday afternoon without any thought that there is risk involved.”
With Post wires
