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.

I agree. I have no idea what DP would do, and selfishly I hope he wouldn’t intervene as we have 2 small children and need him. He’s intervened in several fights over the years that he could’ve easily walked away from but even that is miles away from a frenzied knife attacker - he had some broken bones in his hand once but his life was not in danger. Have a go heroes are very rare and nobody knows who they would be until it happens.

None of us know how we'd react in such a situation and it s pretty tasteless to be boasting about what you think your husband would do, I'm sure all the traumatized bystanders will buck their ideas up next time

I'm guessing he was off his meds. Schizophrenia is easily treated with the right meds.... I see this all the time at work when meds are refused

Let's hope there's never a shortage of medication

It's dreadful news, poor baby being left without mum. Same as the other week in Bradford.

So so sad 😞

You know no such thing, and you're very naive if you think you do.

Having been in life threatening situations a couple of times, I have seen people react in utterly out of character ways. You have no idea how you or anyone you know would react until it happens to you.

I was walking in woods with my dog and a man in a skull balaclava approached me and I was completely rooted to the spot. I couldn't move a muscle. I would have never thought in a million years that's what I would have done.

I was surprised at how many men just ran away. I know that my DH would have rugby tackled him to the ground.

And my dad's bigger than your dad.

A relative of my husband intervened in an incident where a man was beating up his partner. He was killed. She was fine. I tell my husband not to be a hero. I am not apologetic about this.

Just heartbreaking. That poor baby. And that heroic police officer.

I know I am probably being U but as someone with schizophrenia I just want to remind people that those living with severe mental illness are much more likely to be the victims of violent crime than the perpetrators.

The bollard guy tried to take him on. He didn’t go near him though the attacker seemed to just be targeting women.

in the chaos of everything I doubt anyone would have been able to do much crowded shopping centre so many people running and yelling it would have been panic and confusion and probably initially no one knew exactly who it was. I haven’t seen but I imagine the people who were killed were at the start before anyone understood what was going on then everyone ran away and he just wandered about. The videos I have seen he is walking though the centre with no people nearby they all fled into shops ect

Police have confirmed he was targeting women. I still feel so sick and sad.

No, they haven't.

Did I dream the BBC article I read this morning? It was 6.30am and I was still half asleep, but?

They have said they are certainly looking into it as part of their investigation, due to the disproportionate amount of women attacked, but it has not been confirmed.

BBC News - Bondi Junction mall attack: 'Obvious' killer targeted women, Sydney police say
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68814395

Sorry, but if they're confident enough to say it was "obvious", that's good enough for me.

mental health
owns a storage unit
moved from another part of Aus.

Anything else?

His demeanour on the video was familiar

What do you mean?

Ignore my last post, I see quite a lot has been released about this man after I last checked.

In a news report I just watched, the police officer referred to him as a "gentleman" - this boiled my piss. I know it's just a turn of phrase but still.

I agree and it seems it could be - his father has been quoted and reported on the bbc as saying he wanted a girlfriend, had no social skills and was frustrated.

Daily Fail link but interview with parents here -

Westfield knifeman's parents break silence

https://mol.im/a/13308575

There are reports of another stabbing in Sydney, in a church. What sad times we are living in.

This one was horrible as it was live streamed on YouTube, as the church live stream all services (like a lot of churches do) after covid. Just a horrible world we are living in currently.

It's utterly heartbreaking. Listening to his parents talk about him how much they tried to help him.
Mental illness can affect anyone.
His poor victims.
No one knows how to react in the face of danger.

Those mentioned he was known to police, this was a moving on order from sleeping rough in 'The Rocks' area of the city in Sydney's, not for any violence.

@mynameiscalypso the killer was unknown to all victims, this was not a personal attack, he was a homeless schizophrenic off his meds and possibly in a drug induced psychosis.