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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Sun Apr 14, 2024, 05:31 AM Apr 2024

Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people

https://apnews.com/article/sydney-shopping-center-stabbing-shot-bondi-22068107d1569dbc374f709a74539c30

Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that the stabbing attacks at a busy Sydney shopping centre have “shocked the nation.”

BY RICK RYCROFT AND KEIRAN SMITH
Updated 4:52 AM EDT, April 14, 2024

SYDNEY (AP) — Police identified Sunday the assailant who stabbed and killed six people at a busy Sydney shopping center before a police officer fatally shot him.

New South Wales Police said that Joel Cauchi, 40, was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, in the city’s eastern suburbs and not far from the world-famous Bondi Beach.

NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters at a media conference on Sunday that Cauchi suffered from yet unspecified mental health issues and police investigators weren’t treating the attack as terrorism-related.

“We are continuing to work through the profiling of the offender but very clearly to us at this stage, it would appear that this is related to the mental health of the individual involved,” Cooke said.

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Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people (Original Post) sl8 Apr 2024 OP
In Australia, they have sensible gun laws, thank goodness. Lunabell Apr 2024 #1
They learned the lesson that we have failed to do. Mickju Apr 2024 #2
It's as if they actually value human life. Lunabell Apr 2024 #3

Lunabell

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1. In Australia, they have sensible gun laws, thank goodness.
Sun Apr 14, 2024, 07:03 AM
Apr 2024

Or the death toll would have been much larger. In America, if this had happened with an assault weapon or even a semi automatic gun that holds 30 rounds, dozens of innocent people would have died. It's sad that six people lost their lives due to a crazy person with a knife, but in this country it could have been so much worse. 😢

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