The man who fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping centre might have been targeting women, police have said.
Joel Cauchi, 40, killed five women and a male security guard at a Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon before being shot dead by a female police officer.
On Monday morning, New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb was asked by the Australian broadcaster ABC about footage of the massacre that appeared to show Cauchi targeting women.
She replied: “The videos speak for themselves, don’t they?”
“It’s obvious to me, it’s obvious to detectives that seems to be an area of interest that the offender focused on women and avoided the men.
“We don’t know what was operating in the mind of the offender and that’s why it’s important now that detectives spend so much time interviewing those who know him, were around him, close to him.
“So we can get some insight into what he might have been thinking.
“We won’t know necessarily but we have to take a judgement from those who know him.”
Source Agencies
