The New South Wales state coroner has launched an investigation into the deaths of six people at the Westfield shopping center in Bondi Junction earlier this year.
The investigation will take place starting Tuesday, November 12 at 9:30 a.m. New South Wales coroner Teresa O’Sullivan will establish details surrounding the deaths of the seven people at the Westfield shopping center in Bondi Junction on April 13, 2024.
Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured several more before being shot dead by a lone police officer.
Cauchi entered the shopping center around 3:20 p.m. armed with a knife and began stabbing random people, including five women and a man, who later died.
NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott, who was at the shopping center when the attack occurred, was first on the scene and followed Cauchi before ordering him to drop his gun. When he turned around and raised his knife, the officer shot and killed him.
As the incident unfolded at the Bondi Junction shopping centre, crowds of people crowded inside stores in terror.
Six people died as a result of the stabbing: Cheng Yixuan, 27, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, Jade Young, 47, Faraz Ahmed Tahir, 30, and Ashlee Good, 38.
Bondi stabs the victims (top left) Dawn Singleton, Ashlee Good, Cheng Yixuan, (bottom left) Faraz Ahmed Tahir, Jade Young and Pikria Darchia.
Video footage shows Cauchi running through Bondi Westfield with a knife. Image: 9News
Good’s nine-month-old daughter, who was sitting in her stroller at the time of the attack, was also stabbed by Cauchi.
The mother handed her injured baby to two strangers as she lay seriously injured. The baby underwent emergency surgery and survived the attack.