Nicole Chettle ✔@nicolechettle Sydney stabbing: 41 year old woman who was stabbed in the back in Sydney CBD is stable, conscious and talking. Hospital says she’s recovering well and is unlikely to be discharged this evening @abcnews @abcsydney @rgloveroz 26 10:29 AM – Aug 13, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy
There they struggled to enter the building. The officer and the young man tried to gain the attention of those inside by pressing on multiple apartment buzzers.
Soon after a young woman came to the door, a mobile phone in one hand. Visibly distressed, the woman appealed to the officer: “you’ve got to help me.”
He told the Guardian at the scene that, together with other onlookers, they had managed to subdue the alleged offender. Paul said the man had yelled “extremist” slogans, but he declined to repeat what he had said.
The city tonight, celebrates three brand-new heroes. And I think it would only be appropriate for the commissioner and I to thank those three individual citizens who have acted well and truly beyond the call of any citizen in bringing this offender to bear. Can I also congratulate those firefighters … who have also gone beyond the call of duty. I’ll be making sure they get the appropriate accolades, and that everyone knows this is how Sydneysiders respond.
“I can say that he was known to police with but his history was unremarkable compared to the of gravity of the crimes he committed. I can say he does have a history of mental health, but at this stage, I can’t expand on that. No doubt in the coming days, the investigation will be looked closely at, not just the last couple of days, but certainly the last probably six months to 12 months.
At around two this afternoon we received multiple phone calls about a 21-year-old man from Marayong, in the vicinity of King Street armed with a knife and wearing a balaclava.
Over the next six minutes … there was terrifying carnage in that area.
He stabbed a 41-year-old woman in the back – it appears to be a random attack.
Three members of the public who can only be described as highest-order heroes, have engaged this 21-year-old man and have placed him essentially under arrest, even though he was brandishing a large butcher’s knife and was clearly dangerous.
A number of other emergency services were in the vicinity and responded shortly after, and police put this individual in custody.
In the next 30 minutes an expanded crime scene unfortunately identified a 21-year-old woman … deceased.
All the available information we have at hand would link these two crimes.
Our counter-terrorist command immediately stood up and the joint CT team which includes police and state and fed agencies, have assessed all available info in relation to his crime and it is not currently classed as a terrorism based incident.