[Saskdevil]

Originally Posted by Xploit Machine ↗

The mother who died trying to save her baby after a knifeman went on a killing spree in Sydney has been named as Ash Good. The 38-year-old died in hospital on Saturday evening after being stabbed in the attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre. Her nine-month-old baby daughter is currently in hospital after she also received stab wounds. Good, an experienced osteopath, was walking through the centre when the attacker stabbed the baby in her pram, before turning the weapon on her, the Australian Telegraph reported. She desperately tried to save her daughter’s life by handing her to nearby strangers, eye witnesses reported.

“She handed us the baby and said ‘please help, help’,” a witness told Channel Nine at the scene. “She was bleeding from her head, her face … the baby was bleeding.”

The Sydney mother was rushed to St Vincent’s hospital in a critical condition, but died soon after arriving.Her daughter is undergoing surgery at Sydney Children’s Hospital, where she remains in a serious condition, news.co.au reported.

Source https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...ing-live-baby/

Absolutely tragic. What a courageous mother.

[Rdysn5]

Looks like it was just an Australian guy with mental health issues.

[Noose]

Originally Posted by EvilJoop ↗

This one

That guy with the hat just standing there is lucky, they stabber could have killed him in seconds.

[Me_On_Top]

Originally Posted by APPIIII ↗

I'm sorry, but everyone calling this man a coward is a damned fool.

He did something incorrect and illegal, this much is true..

However it takes a big man to nut up and put his life on the line like this. Of course he didn't attack the big man beckoning him, it's easier to slice and dice a woman or child than a man, are you stupid! He fulfilled his goals, even though they were terrorism and wrong, and because of that though he is an evil man he is brave and has big, supple nuts.

Calling this man a coward is like saying an elephant do not have tusks! It is a stupid comparison. Instead of getting in your feelings and incorrectly calling this man a coward, consider Beefing up your mall security, or better yet do not go in big crowds if you do not want to risk the risk of bodily injury, it can happen at any time. Big Nuts McGee over here committing illegal terorrism is a great example of this...

You think it takes courage or "big nuts" to kill women and children?

What this moron couldn't do is face whatever challenges or problems he had in a constructive manner and decided to opt for violence instead.

Blaming society is the easiest path to take, and in this case it just manifests into killing the defenseless. Such bravery!

So yes, coward is the appropriate term to convey that here.

[Bleed]

Originally Posted by Starsailor ↗

Why are people talking about Muslims and illegals? The attacker’s name is Joel Cauchi and looks white as white can be.

[kellyhound]

Cauchi was known to police in New South Wales and Queensland for mental health-related matters. Police do not believe the attack on Saturday was terrorism-related or linked to any ideology.

According to his social media activity, Cauchi had been interested in surfing at Bondi beach as well as a range of social activities across Sydney, leaving frequent Google reviews for businesses he attended.

Cauchi was a 40-year-old man from Queensland who lived an “itinerant” lifestyle, moving throughout the state before travelling to NSW last month.

Queensland police said he was single with no children, and believed he had been living in a vehicle since arriving to Sydney.

The Queensland police acting assistant commissioner, Roger Lowe, said Cauchi had been diagnosed with a mental illness aged 17, for which he had received treatment, but his mental health had declined “in the last number of years”.

His last contact with family was in March. Police said he would “periodically text his mother with an update to where he was”.

Cauchi was a member of a number of Facebook groups related to social activities throughout Sydney. He had posted in one group as early as last week, wanting to meet others for a surf at Bondi beach.

In January he had posted in a backpackers group seeking people to carpool with and explore Sydney. He also appears to have had a keen interest in astronomy, frequently posting in groups about this.

Queensland police said he was unemployed.

The NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, said there would be an investigation for “many days, and perhaps weeks” into Cauchi.

Police would work to identify “the movement of the offender [on Saturday and in] the hours, the days, the weeks – his life leading up to yesterday”, Webb told reporters on Sunday.

At this stage, police have not identified a motive.

Webb told reporters Cauchi was known to police in NSW and Queensland.

“He is not known criminally but he has come to notice of law enforcement in this state and Queensland for mental health-related issues,” she said.

Lowe said Cauchi had never been arrested in Queensland or charged with any criminal offence, with no record in the courts for a domestic violence order.

“He has been in contact with the police, primarily in the last four to five years,” Lowe said. “During that contact we are aware here that this individual has suffered from mental health.”

The last interaction Queensland police had with Cauchi was in December 2023, when he was street checked on the Gold Coast.

At a news conference, Lowe was asked if Cauchi had a knife obsession and had ever called the police on his family for taking away his knives. Lowe responded: “We’re aware of an event in 2023 which we’re investigating.”

But Cauchi had never been charged with any offence relating to knives, or found to possess knives in an unlawful manner that would warrant prosecution, he said.

He rented a “very small” storage unit in Sydney’s inner city which Guardian Australia understands was only about one cubic metre in size.

Webb would not confirm its contents but said anything found would form part of the investigation. Contents found so far had not revealed any motive, she said.

According to social media, Cauchi was raised in Toowoomba. He left a review for a local restaurant 11 months ago.

Lowe said he had moved around Brisbane to Kangaroo Point and Carina, then back to his family’s residence – understood to be in Rockville, near Toowoomba – over the past few years.

In 2019 the Toowoomba Art Society welcomed Cauchi as a new member, according to a newsletter at the time.

Cauchi was an “odd” and “strange” guy.

Roughly three years ago, Cauchi had asked the business to sharpen his two “everyday knives”.

“Which I thought was weird,” the owner said. “He wasn’t a chef or a butcher.

“He goes, ‘Oh no, I just do a bit of dabbling in the backyard with the knives and I use them every day.’”

The business owner said Cauchi had not engaged in small talk and was “very to the point”.

“His expressions, he was just very vague, I suppose you could say,” he said. “No real personality about him, just weird. I heard he leaves one-star reviews on a lot of people’s pages all the time, so just that sort of person”.

Some of Cauchi’s reviews included a show at the Sydney Opera House five months ago (“absolutely loved it!”), a restaurant in Elizabeth Bay seven months ago (“absolutely delicious”) and a club in Sydney one year ago (“the atmosphere is pumping”.)

On the day of the stabbing, Cauchi calmly ate a lunch of red curry chicken with rice just hours beforehand.

Rogate Sianipar, 29, served Cauchi his lunch at Saigon Noodle in Oxford Street mall, about 100m from Westfield, just after midday on Saturday.

“He came at 10am but didn’t have any money so came back at 12,” Sianipar said. “He seemed confused when he ordered. Normal but confused. He opened his wallet and paid.”

[kellyhound]

The only male victim to be killed in the horrific stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi Junction has been identified as Faraz Tahir.

Mr Tahir, a security guard at the busy shopping centre, moved to Australia last year through a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees program, fleeing persecution in his home country of Pakistan.

His friend and fellow member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Shajar Ahmad, told The Sydney Morning Herald the 30-year-old “had so many hopes and dreams for his future”.

He had worked just four or five shifts at Westfield, Mr Ahmad said. Yet, on Saturday afternoon – his first daytime shift at the centre – his new life here was cut tragically short.

[Lugia]

Originally Posted by APPIIII ↗

I'm sorry, but everyone calling this man a coward is a damned fool.

He did something incorrect and illegal, this much is true..

However it takes a big man to nut up and put his life on the line like this. Of course he didn't attack the big man beckoning him, it's easier to slice and dice a woman or child than a man, are you stupid! He fulfilled his goals, even though they were terrorism and wrong, and because of that though he is an evil man he is brave and has big, supple nuts.

Calling this man a coward is like saying an elephant do not have tusks! It is a stupid comparison. Instead of getting in your feelings and incorrectly calling this man a coward, consider Beefing up your mall security, or better yet do not go in big crowds if you do not want to risk the risk of bodily injury, it can happen at any time. Big Nuts McGee over here committing illegal terorrism is a great example of this...

How man disabilities do you have and what's your favourite?

[Lugia]

Originally Posted by Nite ↗

Harsh thing to say about Queenslanders

Justified.

[Lugia]

Originally Posted by Gore Whore ↗

He looks like a Leb or something, and considering it's Bondi (I grew up not far from there) there's a good chance he is. Especially since he went after mostly women, the Lebs there hate western women. And a little baby girl, the piece of shit I hope he gets raped and shivved in prison.

Not a Leb, not from Bondi.