At around 1:00 p.m., Frankum went to
Strathfield Plaza, a shopping centre in the
Inner West of Sydney. He sat in a café called The Coffee Pot, where he drank four cups of coffee. At approximately 3:30 p.m., apparently without provocation, Frankum pulled a
bowie knife from an
army surplus duffel bag and turned to the table behind him occupied by two teenage girls, killing 15-year-old Roberta Armstrong by repeatedly stabbing her in the back. Leaving the knife in the body of the girl, he pulled a Chinese-made
SKS semi-automatic rifle out of his duffel and shot around the café, killing five more people. He then shot the café's owner dead and fled into the main area of the centre, where he killed his last victim. Frankum ran into the rooftop car park and held a car owner at gunpoint, demanding that she take him to
Enfield, a nearby suburb. Before the woman could start her car, police began to arrive on the scene with Constable Darren Stewart the first to arrive. He was shot at in his police car by Frankum from the car park rooftop, Stewart had run through the Strathfield shopping centre to engage Frankum, but, upon arriving at the carpark rooftop, Frankum shot numerous rounds into the door leading to the carpark, pinning down Stewart. Upon hearing more approaching sirens, Frankum apologised to the woman and then got out of the car, knelt on the ground, and committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head. ==Victims==