Witnesses describe 'enormous courage' of hero cop who stopped Australia stabbing spree

A female constabulary officer is being called a leader aft acting unsocial to neutralize nan fishy who went connected a stabbing spree astatine a shopping halfway adjacent Sydney, Australia. 

Six group are dormant and 8 much injured, including a 9-month-old infant, aft a 40-year-old man wielding a weapon went connected a rampage Saturday day astatine Westfield Bondi Junction. Authorities opportunity that an unidentified constabulary serviceman who was first to respond to nan segment ran towards nan assailant and fatally changeable him, ending his sidesplitting spree.

"She showed tremendous courageousness and bravery," New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said during a news conference. Webb described nan leader bull arsenic a "very elder officer" but did not merchandise her name.  

A witnesser described nan officer's fearless actions to Australian media.

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Police officers guidelines defender extracurricular Westfield Shopping Centre wherever aggregate group were stabbed successful Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. A man stabbed six group to decease astatine nan engaged Sydney shopping halfway Saturday earlier he was fatally shot, constabulary said. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Jason Dixon told The Daily Telegraph that arsenic nan serviceman approached nan suspect, nan man refused to driblet his knife. 

"All she said was: ‘Put it down.’ Just once. Then she changeable him successful nan thorax and he went down," said Dixon. He added that nan man gave nan serviceman nary different choice.

"She had to sprout him because he conscionable kept coming. He had a weapon and he wasn’t going to stop," he said. "He was advancing astatine her, and he was running, coming to get personification else." 

Dixon said nan serviceman changeable nan fishy erstwhile successful nan bosom aliases nan chest. 

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Authorities said nan stabbing incident happened successful Westfield Bondi Junction, a shopping halfway successful nan eastbound suburbs of Sydney.  (Fox News)

"I’m gladsome she sewage him, because if he didn’t, he would person stabbed her too." 

Another eyewitness described nan constabulary serviceman shooting nan attacker to Australia broadcaster ABC.

"If she did not sprout him, he would person kept going, he was connected nan rampage," said nan man, who did not springiness his name. "She went complete and was giving him CPR. He had a bully large leaf connected him. He looked for illustration he was connected a sidesplitting spree."

New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said nan serviceman confronted nan fishy by herself.

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A constabulary serviceman reacts extracurricular nan Westfield Bondi Junction shopping promenade aft a stabbing incident successful Sydney connected April 13, 2024. Australian constabulary connected April 13 said they had received reports that "multiple people" were stabbed astatine a engaged shopping centre successful Sydney. (DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

"She confronted nan offender who had moved by this shape to level 5 [of nan mall] arsenic she continued to locomotion quickly down him to drawback up pinch him. He turned, faced her, raised a knife. She discharged a firearm and that personification is now deceased," Cooke said.

Five of nan six stabbing victims were women, while 8 people, including nan baby, person been hospitalized successful Sydney and are receiving treatment, authorities said. 

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called nan incident a "horrific enactment of unit indiscriminately targeting guiltless group going astir an mean Saturday."

He praised nan serviceman who confronted nan offender. "She is surely a hero. There is nary uncertainty that she saved lives done her action," he said. 

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Investigators person not yet identified a motive successful nan horrific onslaught but person said they do not judge it was terrorism. 

"Let maine guarantee you that we are assured that location is nary ongoing risk, and we are dealing pinch 1 personification who is now deceased," Webb said. 

Reuters contributed to this report.