To feel very sad about what happened in Bondi today

[margolyes]

Only posting here as no other post that I could see. 7 people dead. He stabbed a 9 month old baby. The baby's mum passed it to someone else . Mum has just died. WHat the feck is wrong with people? Thank goodness a police inspector went in on her own and shot him. So sad. It's where my family grew up and just a normal part of Australia. Hate to say it but the world is awful.

Your poll wasn't open long! But yeah YANBU @margolyes It is really sad. Don't hear about many things like this happening in Australia. Very sad news, and my heart goes out to everyone affected.

I think it's just one of those things that makes people find it extra upsetting @WingSluts - it's just an ordinary place, not somewhere you would consider high risk.

This type of speculation is not at all helpful.

I think mostly women (and a baby) were attacked because he was a coward. Simple as.
I'm glad he got shot by a lone female police officer in the end.

No. That s not what it was. Don't politicize this.

Not according to the Australian official who was on the news earlier, I suspect they know more than your friend

I took her to be saying they knew it was either some kind of personal attack or a mental health issue

I’ve actually read that too. Like the equivalent of London’s Golders Green. Though I stand to be corrected as I don’t live there.

Very sad.

I'm a Kiwi, and my heart goes out to our Aussie kin across the Tasman. I loved Sydney and the people I met when I was there some years ago. I'm so sorry this happened, to everyday people just going about their everyday life. You are all very much in my thoughts today - especially to that very brave police officer that shot the person committing such awful acts.

Heartbreaking 💔

Because it’s an ordinary place that so many people go to. In cities we all go to a shopping centre for groceries, clothes, shoes, hair, kitchen things, electronics, movies, toys, etc. It’s not what we think of as a risky place for being attacked or killed.

On a Saturday afternoon it would have been packed with people and especially families. (It’s currently midnight Saturday night/Sunday morning here on the east coast of Australia.)

Just a normal place with normal people doing normal things. It could easily have been anyone in any shopping centre. That kind of hits home and it’s scary. We’re not used to this sort of thing here. This is some USA type of thing. Not Australia.

How is this an AIBU? Of course you're not, no sane person would think you were.

Dh took dd1 and dd2 to a Westfield in Melbourne today, different stare obviously, but it was a reminder that no one is safe from crazy.

RIP those poor innocent victims, my thoughts are with their families and friends.

Shocking but sadly becoming more common

@margolyes

What did the escalator man and the father do?

I'm not sure it's completely clear yet, but one man tried to use a metal bar somehow against the attacker

Brave of him - as eyewitness accounts of the knife the attacker was using satate that it was about as long as his forearm.

Also very brave of the police officer too - and remarkable professionalism, as after taking him down she began CPR

Just awful and frightening that there are people out there like that. If it was targeted I just don't understand why men are prepared to kill their ex and their child because things didn't work out. I hope the baby is all right and has family to take her in.

Sickening. Absolutely sickening.

The police, from what they have said and the way they have said it, do seem to have some sort of working theory. But they haven't yet said what it is.

So right now we do not know if there was either a general overall aim or a set of targets, or a specific target.

Well said @ExpressCheckout

The same from me too, thought and prayers for our Australian cousins, especially the poor baby.

@RoseAndRose

Thankyou.

I only caught half of a report earlier. Awful.

Truly awful, OP.

Absolutely horrendous!
Haven't seen many updates - my own thoughts are - that the first woman he killed was an estranged wife/partner. Dare I say it, but that poor baby was a girl.
Also "known to the police" - for Domestic Violence.
The Woman Police Officer who shot him deserves a bravery medal.
Hopefully, no more of those poor, injured people will die.

I can't get my head around somebody stabbing a baby. How does someone get to that point? They give toy babies to dementia patients that can't remember their own names. They do this because no matter how serious the illness it's instinctive to protect and nurture and calms the patient.

Just watching the news. No links to extremism. He was known to police. Sounds like a nutter. Hats off to the police woman that took him down.

Horrendous- we returned from Sydney about 18 months ago. In total shock here. Just people shopping and hanging out on a Saturday afternoon. Madness. And the poor baby who will wake up without his mummy to cuddle him.