The female cop who single-handedly confronted and stopped a knife-wielding madman who killed six people at a Sydney shopping mall has been identified as a veteran cop.
The officer – identified in local reports as Amy Scott, a high-ranking inspector at the Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command – had been on the job for more than a decade prior to the harrowing attack at Sydney’s Westfield Bondi Junction Shopping Centre on Saturday.
New South Wales Police Commissioner said Scott displayed “enormous courage and bravery” while responding to the incident that left six people dead, including a mother who desperately tried to protect her 9-month-old daughter, who remained in serious condition following surgery for her wounds.
Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke also praised Scott for her rapid response, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
“As she continued to walk quickly behind him to catch up with him, he turned, faced her, raised a knife,” Cooke told reporters Saturday. “She discharged a firearm and that person is now deceased.”
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