The police officer who shot and killed Joel Cauchi minutes after he had stabbed 16 people in a Sydney shopping center was “on her own” and believed she was going to be killed, a court has been told. Six people were killed by 40-year-old Cauchi, who was schizophrenic, at Bondi Junction’s Westfield shopping center on 13 April 2024. The first call to the police after the attack began was at 3.34 pm, the coronial inquest into the mass stabbing heard on Tuesday. Insp Amy Scott was the first officer to respond. The call came over her police car radio at 3.35 pm. “I remember the radio operator saying ‘We’re getting multiple calls, multiple stabbings, multiple locations at Bondi Junction’. I knew right then that it was very real.”
Insp Amy Scott was the first officer to respond to the attacks carried out by 40-year-old Cauchi.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/29/bondi-junction-stabbing-attack-joel-cauchi-police-officer-amy-scott-ntwnfb
