NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the force will be tracking attacker Joel Cauchi’s “life leading up to yesterday” when he killed six people and injured scores more.
“Six people were murdered and up to 12 people are still in hospital,” Webb said.
“Today I understand the families have identified two of those victims.
“It may be some time [before] we can identify all of the victims because some family members do not reside in Australia.
“This will be an active investigation for many days and perhaps weeks while we identify not only the movement of the offender, not just yesterday, but the hours, the days, the weeks, his life leading up to yesterday.”
Webb said a small storage facility, which has been linked to Cauchi and searched by investigators, “hasn’t certainly indicated anything more that goes to motive”.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb speaks during a press conference at Westfield Bondi Junction on Sunday morning. Credit: Getty
“What we do understand so far is that there’s no ideological motivation,” she said.
“We do understand that there is a history of mental health.”
Regarding the knife, she said police understood that Cauchi “drew it out of his backpack”.
Webb said the community should not be concerned about any ongoing threat.
Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke earlier said police believed Cauchi came to NSW last month from Queensland, and was believed to be from the Brisbane area.
“We are continuing to work through the profiling of the offender but very clearly to us at this stage it would appear that this is related to the mental health of the individual involved,” Cooke said.