The Sydney stabbing

Her words after the effort: "It's not about me" 

 

Police officer Amy Scott shot dead the perpetrator Joel Cauchi and is now being hailed for stopping the knife attack in Sydney. But Scott herself is modest, says state minister Yasmin Catley, who spoke to her.  

- She is so humble. She says that "it's not about me" but people around, that the witnesses really helped too, Catley tells 9News. Scott was on a routine errand near the Westfield mall when the alarm came and immediately got there. 

 

As Scott approached Cauchi, he raised his knife and she opened fire. She then made her way to Cauchi and performed CPR on him, but he died on the spot. 

 

Six people, five of whom were women, died in the stabbing. Had Scott not intervened so early, more would have died, say witnesses: 

 

- He had continued. He was out to kill, says a man who saw Cauchi inside the mall.  

 

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Knifeman identified – five women murdered  

 

The police have assumed that Joel Cauchi, 40, is the man who stabbed six people to death in the Westfield mall in Sydney yesterday. Three people are being treated for critical injuries. A baby, whose mother is one of the victims, is being treated for serious injuries. A total of 17 people were stabbed.  

 

Cauchi is said to have moved from Queensland to the Sydney area just a month before the crime. Police are particularly investigating whether he has attacked women in the past, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. This is because five of the dead are women. 

 

The crime is apparently not terror-related, but the police believe that a long history of mental illness may be behind it. Cauchi is said to have suffered from schizophrenia and used drugs. 

 

Joel Cauchi was shot dead by a lone policewoman who was the first on the scene.