Current:Home > InvestA man stabbed to death 5 people in a Sydney shopping center and was fatally shot by police -Quantum Capital Pro
A man stabbed to death 5 people in a Sydney shopping center and was fatally shot by police
View
Date:2025-04-19 09:16:46
SYDNEY (AP) — A man stabbed five people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. Multiple people, including a small child, were also injured in the attack.
The suspect stabbed nine people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, before a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters. Five of the victims and the suspect died, he said. He had no specific details on the condition of the injured.
Cooke said he believed that the suspect acted alone, and he was “content that there is no continuing threat.” He said officials didn’t know who the offender was. “This is quite raw,” he said, and a ”lengthy and precise” investigation was just beginning.
He said there was “nothing that we are aware of at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology.” When asked whether officials were ruling out terrorism, he said: “We’re not ruling anything out.”
Cooke said the police inspector, a senior officer, was alone when she confronted the suspect and engaged him soon after her arrival on the scene, “saving a range of people’s lives.”
People are led out from the Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
People walk out of Westfield Shopping Centre, where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Video showed many ambulances and police cars around the shopping center, and people streaming out.
Paramedics were treating patients at the scene.
Witness Roi Huberman, a sound engineer at ABC TV in Australia, told the network that he sheltered in a store during the incident.
“And suddenly we heard a shot or maybe two shots and we didn’t know what to do,” he said. “Then the very capable person in the store took us to the back where it can be locked. She then locked the store and then she then let us through the back and now we are out.”
Police officers stand guard outside Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
veryGood! (39)
Related
- Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
- Horoscopes Today, July 6, 2024
- AI company lets dead celebrities read to you. Hear what it sounds like.
- Alec Baldwin is about to go on trial in the death of a cinematographer. Here are key things to know
- Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
- Key events in the troubled history of the Boeing 737 Max
- Trump ally Nigel Farage heckles his hecklers as his far-right Reform UK Party makes gains in U.K. election
- A US appeals court will review its prior order that returned banned books to shelves in Texas
- Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charged with torture
- Margot Robbie Is Pregnant, Expecting First Baby With Husband Tom Ackerley
Ranking
- Rams vs. 49ers highlights: LA wins rainy defensive struggle in key divisional game
- Small plane with 3 on board makes emergency landing on Nevada highway. No one is hurt
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Laundry Day
- Beryl bears down on Texas, where it is expected to hit after regaining hurricane strength
- EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
- 2 dead, more than a dozen others injured in Detroit shooting, Michigan State Police say
- Delaware judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit in battle over estate of the late pop icon Prince
- New parents in Baltimore could get $1,000 if voters approve ‘baby bonus’ initiative
Recommendation
The 401(k) millionaires club keeps growing. We'll tell you how to join.
Bernhard Langer misses cut at Munich to bring 50-year European tour career to an end
Crew of NASA’s earthbound simulated Mars habitat emerge after a year
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Laundry Day
Federal court filings allege official committed perjury in lawsuit tied to Louisiana grain terminal
Watch this 100-year-old World War II veteran marry his 96-year-old bride in Normandy
Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly Step Out for Date Night at Star-Studded Fourth of July Party
June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won’t