A Sydney mother-of-two was also identified as one of the victims however her family requested her name not yet be released. The security guard was a man in his 30s, police said.
Anthony Cooke, the Assistant Commissioner of New South Wales Police, said officers were contacting families to provide support.
‘‘Two (of the victims) would appear to have no family in Australia so we are working through and with agencies overseas to attempt to reach out to the families,” Mr Cooke said.
Killer was known to authorities
Police on Sunday identified the attacker as 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, a mentally unwell man who had recently moved to Sydney from Queensland.
Police believe Cauchi, 40, had lived with schizophrenia and had used drugs including methamphetamine and psychedelics. His family had reportedly held concerns about his interest in knives and other weapons.
Mr Cooke confirmed investigators had searched a storage container used by Cauchi but would not detail whether any items of significance had been found.
“We are continuing to work through the profiling of the offender but very clearly to us at this stage it will appear related to the mental health of the individual,” Mr Cooke said.
“There is still to this point nothing – no information we have received, no evidence we’ve recovered, no intelligence that we have gathered – that would suggest that this was driven by any particular motivation, ideology or otherwise.”
Family thanks witnesses who helped baby
Dr Good was walking through the shopping centre when Cauchi stabbed the baby in her pram, before turning the weapon on the mother.
She desperately tried to save her daughter’s life by handing her to nearby strangers.
“She handed us the baby and said ‘please help, help’,” a witness told Channel Nine at the scene. “She was bleeding from her head, her face … the baby was bleeding.”
Dr Good was rushed to St Vincent’s hospital in a critical condition, but died soon after arriving.
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