What we know so far
- Mert Ney, 20, was seen wielding a knife near the corner of Clarence and King streets about 2pm. Bystanders restrained him with chairs and a milk crate
- Michaela Dunn, 24, was killed in a Clarence Street unit. Linda Bo, 41, was stabbed but is in a stable condition
- Police say Mr Ney was a "lone actor" with a history of mental health issues and no apparent links to terrorist organisations
- Mr Ney was on conditional release after pleading guilty to possessing a prohibited weapon in June
- In the days before the stabbing, he was listed as missing after a "domestic violence situation"
Mert Ney was staying in emergency accommodation
The Sydney Morning Herald's crime reporter Lucy Cormack has more information on where alleged offender Mert Ney spent the days before he embarked on a stabbing rampage in Sydney's CBD.
She writes Mr Ney had been living in a Christian not-for-profit home in Blacktown following an alleged domestic violence incident involving his sister.
The non-denominational Providential Homes, where he was staying, offer immediate short-term accommodation, as well as "transitional" accommodation, to assist guests while they search for longer term housing.
Fellow residents at the home said Mr Ney claimed to have been kicked out of home, and that he rambled about a USB before leaving very early in the morning on Tuesday.
Offender stopped to take selfie after alleged murder
Mert Ney stopped to take a selfie after walking out of the Clarence Street building where he allegedly murdered Michaela Dunn, according to CCTV footage obtained by Seven News.
Mert Ney is captured via CCTV in the laneway near Clarence Street.Credit:Seven News
The video of the laneway near the building shows Ney taking out his phone and pausing for a photo, moments before he went on to stab Linda Bo and jump on the bonnet of a car while wielding a butcher's knife.
'I saw the guy stab someone ... I froze'
A man who was confronted by Mert Ney on Clarence Street yesterday was emotional when he returned to the scene of the stabbing on Wednesday.
"Looking back on it now, this was a guy who had just killed somebody," emotional witness Vee Morgana told Nine News. "Obviously I didn't know that then."
"I saw the guy stab someone... There was a moment just here on Clarence when it was me and him 10 metres apart. I only had my phone with me and there was a moment where I froze."
Police are still investigating the crime scene at 118 Clarence Street where Michaela Dunn was killed.
Community devastated, Michaela Dunn a 'whole individual who will be missed and mourned'
The sex worker community has been "devastated by the series of random and senseless acts of violence" in Sydney's CBD, said a joint statement from the Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association and Sex Workers Outreach Project of New South Wales.
"A young woman was murdered by a violent man in Sydney’s CBD yesterday," the statement reads.
"All victims involved in this incident were valued members of their families and communities ... Michaela Dunn was a woman, a community member, and a whole individual who will be missed and mourned.
"Sex workers regularly face barriers to accessing justice and reporting crimes against us, because so often the violence is attributed to our work ... They are equally deserving of empathy and consideration when befallen by tragedy.
"We are mourning the loss of a valued and loved human being. We offer the victim’s family our deepest and most sincere condolences at this time. Our collective hearts are heavy. "
Mert Ney's sister speaks, says 'sorry a million times' and she wants nothing to do with her brother
Yazel Ney agreed to speak to reporters outside her home in Marayong on Wednesday and said sorry to the family of Michaela Dunn, 24, who was killed in yesterday's attack, writes Tim Barlass.
Ms Ney also said it was "obvious that there has been a steep descent into insanity" regarding her brother's behaviour, but she did not want to comment on whether mental health services had let him down.
"I don't want to like say anything about that because then that's like it's like blaming the services, when they could have been doing all they can. Do, you know, I feel like that's unfair," she said.
"[I am] shocked, angry, disgusted. I hate my last name. If someone in your family did this, like, how would you feel? I'm, like, I'm no threat to myself, sorry, I want to be clear about that.
"I wish there was a way that I could make it all better for [my mother], but I can't. I can't make it better for anyone else and I wish I could."
Michaela Dunn remembered as a 'true delight'
A friend of Ms Dunn, Joan Westenberg, wrote on social media that the 24-year-old Notre Dame graduate was a "true delight to know".
"I’ve known this girl since she was just a kid in high school at 14. Mikki was like my baby sister. I cannot describe how sad and how broken I am at this moment. I loved this kid. She was incredible," Ms Westenberg wrote on Twitter.
"Mikki was a true delight to know ... She deserved to be safe while she worked. Her job does not make her a lurid story. She was a person and she is now gone. And she is gone because male violence has taken her from us."
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Second stabbing victim, Linda Bo, still stable in hospital
The Australian Associated Press reported it understands the second woman stabbed in Sydney yesterday is Linda Bo, 41.
Ms Bo is believed to be an employee at shipping company Cosco, which has an office nearby Hotel CBD where she was attacked about 2pm.
She is in a stable condition at St Vincent's Hospital after she was stabbed in the shoulder.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said "the fact she's alive is a miracle", considering Mert Ney likely "went on the street to kill more people".
Murder victim spoke against sexual violence
Michaela Dunn's mother said her daughter was well-travelled, loving, and from a beautiful family in Sydney's suburbs.
Ms Dunn had travelled to the United States and Sri Lanka in the last year, according to her social media accounts. She also rallied against sexual violence in a Facebook post several years ago.
"Sexual violence and harassment is never acceptable. Take two minutes to read and sign this petition, it's such an important issue that needs to be addressed sooner than later," she wrote on a post from 2016.
Michaela Dunn, 24, identified as victim
The victim of yesterday's attack was Michaela Dunn, 24, from Sydney.
She was a former student at Rosebank College in Sydney's inner west and attended the University of Notre Dame.
Her mother told Nine News she wanted everyone to know her daughter was from an ordinary family in suburban Sydney, and she "was very much loved".
She was described as a "beautiful girl from a beautiful family".
Michaela Dunn's mother described her as a "beautiful girl from a beautiful family".Credit:Facebook
Sister's emotional words for stabbing victim
The sister of accused stabber Mert Ney has spoken with reporters outside the family's Marayong home, telling them she is sorry that a young woman has lost her life.
"She was like, younger than me. She could have been going out like within a few hours, to do shopping with her mum, eat dinner with her boyfriend, go speak to her girlfriends ... and now she can't do that can she?
"All the words that I can say isn't ever gonna bring her back, is it? I want to say, I'm really, really sorry. No one should have... she was like, defenceless."
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