A young mum stabbed to death while shopping with her nine-month old baby girl, posted a heartbreaking photo of the two just hours before the horror attack.
Ash Good, 38, was among the six innocent shoppers at Sydney’s Bondi Junction Westfield who were killed at random on Saturday, when a man, 40, dressed in a kangaroos rugby league jersey, went on a stabbing rampage about 3:20pm before being shot dead by a female police officer.
A total of nine people, including Ms Good’s baby, suffered knife wounds.
The infant is now fighting for life after being to hospital for emergency surgery.
Just hours before the horror unfolded, Ms Good posted an photo to Instagram with her baby in her arms.
‘Only because I was walking past and happened to be wearing the same thing 9 months out vs 9 months in etc etc,’ the caption read.
She also posted a short video of her daughter sitting in a car seat with the Tempations song My Girl overlayed.
Harrowing details have emerged about what happened when Ms Good and her baby here attacked.
Just before 5pm, a witness interrupted a Nine News reporter’s live cross from the scene and pointed to his brother, saying: ‘He’s a hero – he saved the baby’.
The clearly shaken hero said he used clothes from a store to try and stem the baby’s bleeding.
‘The baby got stabbed and, yeah, the mum got stabbed,’ he said.
‘The mum came over with the baby and threw it at me.
‘I just helped by holding the baby … and trying to compress the baby.’
The two brothers used clothing and shirts from a shop to try and stop the baby’s bleeding and stayed with the mother as they waited for emergency services.
‘(It was) very bad… a lot of the blood on the floor … hope the baby’s alright,’ the other brother said.
Victims of the attack were left lying in the mall while police worked to stop the attack
Police are attending the scene in numbers and the n Federal Police are now liaising with NSW Police in case the the joint counter terrorism team is needed
The injured mum had blood coming out of her mouth, he said.
Another witness, a worker at the shopping centre, recalled seeing a mother screaming on the level above.
‘I see a mother and maybe her partner with a baby in a pram,’ she told Nine News.
‘She’s screaming really, really loudly. She’s running back and forth not knowing what to do.
‘Then she comes back to the pram and picks up her baby and there’s just blood all over her back.
‘The scream was unforgettable, it was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.
‘My co-worker took me, we locked all the doors, had to turn off all the lights and doors’.
Horror images taken at the grisly scene shows a baby being taken away in an ambulance.
The baby who was among the nine stabbing victims is pictured being taken in an ambulance
Just 12 weeks after her little girl was born, Ms Good posted a heartfelt message to social media about being a mother.
‘It’s almost too much to put into words. The love. The happiness. The fears. The new world. The new me; one that I’m still discovering as I enter motherhood and complete the so-called fourth trimester.’
‘It’s like experiencing your heart swell with love whilst navigating anxiety for the first time.
‘Feeling so proud, and then so overwhelmed. The dichotomy of it all.
‘Pure joy and extraordinary exhaustion blended with emotions you’ve never felt before.’
She went on to say that it’s a parent is ‘the most outstandingly beautiful gift one can ever receive’.
‘Sitting here feeling so deeply thankful, and still pinching myself she’s ours.
‘I love her so much.’