A “floride psychotic” man who stabbed six people in a shopping center was not specifically aimed at women, said the main police researcher.
Joel Cauchi was forgotten by the mental health system when he armed himself with a long knife of 30 centimeters and on April 13, 2024 by Sydney’s Bondi Junction Westfield furious.
Six people, including five women’s Werden, killed and 10 others injured before the 40-year-old was shot by the police.
While an investigation into the events started on Monday, Detective -Head Inspector Andrew Marks said that Cauchi had no terrorist ideology and had not launched the attack on women.
“He seemed to attack people who were not ready, who did not know what was happening,” he told NSW Coroners Court.
“I just believe that the one who stood in his way – where he ran – was who he attacked.”
‘Waste’ browsing history
Counsel in the assisting of Peggy DWyer SC described the surfing history of the 40-year-old before the attack as “painful”.
“Cauchi was busy with weapons, violence and mass murder,” she said.
This interest in death and murder included searches for the characteristics of serial killers and bands they loved, as well as mass stabben in Australia and the Columbine High School -Schiet party from 1999 in the US.
Comments on his phone contain references to planning a strike in a shopping center, the court was told.
The searches showed a serious unwell man who was far from the support of his parents, Dwyer said.
Psychiatric proof of experts is expected to be “floride psychotic” at the time.
The notes in his phone were far removed from how the 40-year-old appeared on the day of the attacks and did not see a real motive, she told the court.
Dwyer described how Cauchi went from victim to victim, and how bystanders hurried to help the wounded or to help paramedics or police.
Dawn Singleton, 25, Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Pikria Darchia, 55, Yixuan Cheng, 27 and guard Faraz Tahir, 30
were all killed.
From the left, Pikria Darchia, Faraz Tahir, Ashlee Good and Jade Young were among the six people who were killed at the Bondi Junction Stabbing Attack. Source: MONKEY / Images supplied
Incorrect type of warning issued
The stabbing started about 40 seconds after the only guard went to the bathroom in the command post from the center.
This meant that there was no one who actively checked the movements of the 40-year-old via the CCTV network for about a minute before the officer returned.
Security officials issued the wrong type of alert and told customers to evacuate instead of warning that an armed perpetrator was free.
That warning, which flashed in the shopping center in the shopping center, was only activated after Cauchi was shot and killed by the first officer on the spot, said inspector Amy Scott, Dwyer.
An “extremely loud” alarm hinded the communication between emergency care providers on the spot.
Dwyer described how confusion between guards, police officers and paramedics suspected that a second, ultimately non-existent attacker was in the shopping center.
This meant that the area was declared a “hot zone” after Cauchi had been shot, causing ambulance officers to enter the scene.
Fortunately, all the victims were treated by paramedics at that time, Dwyer said.
She said that Cauchi was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager and had been successfully treated for more than 18 years while lived in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.
But in June 2019 he stopped to take anti-psychotic medication, even though his mother expressed concern about a possible relapse.
His decision to move to Brisbane in March 2020, exactly at the start of the COVID Pandemie, meant that his psychiatric sessions stop and his condition deteriorated to the tragic events in Bondi Junction.
After a consultation with a general practitioner in January 2021, a doctor found that Cauchi was a “fit and the right” person to get a weapon permit.
While the Queensland police sent a “declaration of suitability”, no further steps were sent to get a good license.
The investigation will continue on Tuesday.
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