Westfield Bondi Junction: Joel Cauchi's devastated parents send touching ... trends now
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Joel Cauchi's parents have expressed their gratitude for the support of countless strangers since their schizophrenic son was shot dead after stabbing to death six people at Westfield Bondi Junction.
For the past two weeks Michele and Andrew Cauchi have been receiving cards and flowers from sympathetic Australians, many of whom have a family member suffering serious mental illness.
The couple's lives were upended when their 40-year-old son went on a rampage at the Sydney shopping centre on April 14 before he was stopped with three bullets to the chest fired by hero cop Inspector Amy Scott.
Those killed were: new mother Ashlee Good, 38, bride-to-be Dawn Singleton, 25, security guard Faraz Ahmed Tahir, 30, architect Jade Young, 47, artist Pikria Darchia, 55, and economics student Yixuan Cheng, 27.
A dozen other victims were taken to hospital including Ms Good's nine-month-old daughter Harriet.
Michele and Andrew Cauchi, the parents of Bondi Junction Westfield killer Joel Cauchi are pictured
Joel Cauchi is pictured (right) holding a knife while on his murderous rampage in Bondi Junction Westfield in Sydney
Cauchi's parents have been overwhelmed by waves of varying emotions since the carnage, devastated their son could become so unhinged he would turn into a multiple murderer.
'First of all, I feel for the victims,' Mrs Cauchi told Daily Mail Australia from her Toowoomba home on Friday. 'I don't want to take anything away from the victims.
'I'm so sorry about what has happened. Our son unravelled in the last few months and we didn't know.
'But I just
