The NSW state coroner has launched an inquiry into the deaths of six people at Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction earlier this year.
The inquest will be held from Tuesday, November 12 at 9.30am. NSW coroner Teresa O’Sullivan will establish the details surrounding the deaths of the seven people at Westfield Shopping Centre 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 centre about 3.20pm armed with a knife and began stabbing people at random, including five women and one man, who all later died
NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott, who was in the shopping centre when the attack occurred, was first on the scene and followed behind Cauchi before ordering him to drop his weapon. When he turned around and raised his knife, the officer shot and killed him.
As the incident unfolded in the Bondi Junction shopping centre, crowds of people huddled inside shops 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.
Ms Good’s nine-month-old daughter, who was sitting in her pram at the time of the attack, was also stabbed by Mr Cauchi.
The mother handed her injured baby to two strangers as she lay critically wounded. The baby underwent emergency surgery and survived the attack.
