Police Killed a Man who Fatally Stabbed 5 People at a Sydney Mall

The horrifying incident unfolded at a shopping center in Sydney, where an individual mercilessly stabbed five innocent People at a Sydney Mall to death. Police intervened and resorted to using fatal force, shooting the assailant, leading to his demise.

A man stabbed five people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. Multiple people, including a small child, were also injured in the attack.

The suspect stabbed nine people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, before a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters. Five of the victims and the suspect died, he said. He had no specific details on the condition of the injured.

Cooke said he believed that the suspect acted alone, and he was “content that there is no continuing threat.” He said officials didn’t know who the offender was. “This is quite raw,” he said, and a ”lengthy and precise” investigation was just beginning.

He said there was “nothing that we are aware of at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology.” When asked whether officials were ruling out terrorism, he said: “We’re not ruling anything out.”

Cooke said the police inspector, a senior officer, was alone when she confronted the suspect and engaged him soon after her arrival on the scene, “saving a range of people’s lives.”

Video showed many ambulances and police cars around the shopping center, and people streaming out.

Paramedics were treating patients at the scene.

Witness Roi Huberman, a sound engineer at ABC TV in Australia, told the network that he sheltered in a store during the incident.

“And suddenly we heard a shot or maybe two shots and we didn’t know what to do,” he said. “Then the very capable person in the store took us to the back where it can be locked. She then locked the store and then she then let us through the back and now we are out.”

Shoppers Evacuate People at a Sydney Mall Bondi Westfield Mall During Attack

People were evacuated from Sydney’s Bondi Junction amid reports of a stabbing at the Westfield mall on Saturday, April 13.

Footage filmed by Sebastian Rodriguez shows crowds of people leaving an Apple Store inside the shopping center, as sirens can be heard from the background.

In a statement sent to Storyful, New South Wales Police said a “critical incident” had commenced “following the shooting of [a] male.”

New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cook said in a later press conference that a female police inspector shot and killed the armed suspect inside the mall. Five people were confirmed dead and a number of others were injured, including some who were in serious and critical condition in hospital. A “small child” was among the victims, Cook said.

The offender was not immediately identified, but Cook said police believe he acted alone and there was no further threat. Investigators said they were not ruling out a possible terrorist motive. Credit: Sebastian Rodriguez via Storyful.