A heroic shopper caught up in the Westfield Bondi Junction attack has recalled the moment he joined others to try to help police subdue the killer.
Ryan Bramble was shopping at Zara on Saturday with a friend when they heard the women’s bloodcurdling screams as Joel Cauchi, 40, began his attack.
“I just heard women screaming and screaming,” he told 2GB on Monday.
“We looked ahead and saw hundreds of people running.”
He said he was just a few feet away from Cauchi and made eye contact, but the man didn’t seem interested in him.
Ryan Bramble (center) was shopping at Zara on Saturday with a friend when they heard the women’s bloodcurdling screams as Joel Cauchi, 40, began his attack.
Six people were killed in Saturday’s attack. Attacker Joel Cauchi
“This guy walks around the corner, very casually… and I notice a huge Rambo knife in his hand,” Ramble said.
‘He looked into her eyes. He looked at me, we were only a few feet away, but he looked at me and kept going. Just a really upset expression on her face.
It was at that moment that police hero Amy Scott came running in from the street and asked where the criminal was and what he looked like.
Bramble said shoppers around him made the quick decision to grab chairs and bollards and followed the officer as backup.
2GB presenter Ben Fordham told Bramble on Monday morning that he and others put themselves in danger.
“I didn’t really feel that way at the time. “I just wanted to catch the bastard,” Mr Bramble said.
The hero shopper relived the moment in Sunrise remembering the moment Cauchi froze when the group and the police officer caught up with him.
“He just went to attack us, directly at the policewoman, me and the guy in the white shirt,” he said.
And while he was doing that, she shot him three times in a row in the chest. So precise.’
Business owner Bill Mohana spoke openly about the terrifying moment the massacre unfolded.
He was greeting ‘the girls’ in his partner’s lounge on level five of the mall when he turned around and saw ‘people stampeding’ and a ‘broken glass bottle’ and a trail of blood.
Speaking to Nine, Mohana described the confusion he felt during the first moments of the crisis before acting quickly to hide himself and others in the store.
“I quickly closed the front of the store, locked everyone in, turned the lights on, turned everything off, put everyone in the back room,” he said.
The men can be seen running after heroic police officer Amy Scott (pictured far right), and one of them grabs a chair to use as a weapon.
Business owner Bill Mohana (pictured) spoke about the terrifying moment the massacre unfolded.
“I helped an old man who said, ‘let me in.’ I quickly put him inside, took everyone back, closed the door, told everyone, ‘turn off the lights,’ to pretend or act as if we were no longer in the house.” store and the store was closed.
Mohana said waiting for news was “scary and horrible.”
“Like I already saw the bodies lying on the ground and when I heard the gunshots, I thought, oh, we’re next,” he said.
He said his partner, Victoria Kerr, hasn’t slept in two days.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who flew home from a family holiday in Tokyo on Saturday, spoke to radio station 2GB on Monday morning.
“I got a text message from my chief of staff saying to call me urgently… which I thought was unusual,” he said.
‘I left [my family] “At the airport and I was able to get on a flight right away, I just turned around, got on a flight and came back.”
He said Mr Cauchi’s only interaction with NSW Police was a “go order” while he was sleeping rough at The Rocks.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who flew home from a family holiday in Tokyo on Saturday, spoke to radio station 2GB on Monday morning (pictured Joel Cauchi).
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the Bondi Junction massacre site (pictured)
Premier Anthony Albanese and New South Wales Premier Chris Minns with local leaders paying their respects.
The Australian Red Cross Lifeblood has urgently appealed for more blood donations following the attack which hospitalized twelve people, many of whom suffered significant blood loss.
At least 50 witnesses reported to NSW Police on Sunday following the incident, as investigators continue to piece together how the horrific incident unfolded.
Six people, including five women and a security guard, were killed by Joel Cauchi, 40, during a stabbing at Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday.
The victims include mother Ashlee Good, 38, the 25-year-old daughter of millionaire businessman Dawn Singleton, Jade Young, 47, mother of two, Pikria Darchia, 55, and security guard Faraz, 30 years old. Tahir.
Another 12 people were stabbed during the attack, one woman was fighting for her life and five other people remained in intensive care on Monday morning.