Amy Scott was the only uniformed person at the scene of the massacre. "Put the gun down," she shouted before shooting the attacker who was threatening her with the knife that killed six people.
The police commissioner of that district, Karen Webb, said that the uniformed officer showed "enormous courage and bravery" The officer is a senior inspector in the ranks of the district police, Eastern Suburbs Police Region Command, and has been serving in the force for more than ten years. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also highlighted Officer Scott's risky work at a national press conference to report on what happened. The man was later treated by an emergency team, but died at thescene. There was still no official information on the identity of the attacker. The attack occurred this Saturday at the Westfield shopping center in Bondi Junction, in the suburbs of eastern Sydney. from eastern Sydney, the city of Sidney. The attacker was in his 40s and was believed to be from Sydney's eastern suburbs.