Praise for people who died while trying to stop Bondi Beach attackers

One of the bystanders who tried to halt the onslaught primitively came to Australia from the erstwhile USSR to flight anti-Semitic persecution.

While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed arsenic a leader aft disarming 1 of the gunmen shooting astatine a Jewish vacation lawsuit astatine Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a mates and different antheral who died aft physically confronting the attackers are besides being remembered for their heroic efforts to prevention those astir them.

Reuven Morrison, 62, was changeable dormant aft trying to halt the gunmen, his girl Sheina Gutnick told US broadcaster CBS News successful a study published connected Monday.

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“He had jumped the 2nd the shooting started. He managed to propulsion bricks. He was screaming astatine the violent and protecting his community,” she said. “If determination is 1 mode for him to spell connected this Earth, it would beryllium warring a terrorist.”

Morrison’s actions are disposable successful respective videos posted connected societal media. After 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim father-of-two, charged 1 of the gunmen from down and disarmed him, a antheral is seen chasing the attacker and hurling thing astatine him.

Morrison, who primitively came to Australia from the erstwhile USSR to flight anti-Semitic persecution, was aboriginal changeable and killed, according to Gutnick.

“[Australia] is wherever helium was going to person a family, wherever helium is going to unrecorded a beingness distant from persecution,” she said. “And for galore years, helium did bash that; helium lived a wonderful, escaped life. Until Australia turned connected him.”

A twelvemonth prior, Morrison had been interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

“We came present with the presumption that Australia is the safest state successful the satellite and the Jews would not beryllium faced with specified anti-Semitism successful the future, wherever we tin bring up our kids successful a harmless environment,” helium told the outlet successful December 2024 erstwhile asked astir the firebombing of the Adass Synagogue successful Melbourne.

‘These Australians are heroes’: Albanese

Ahmed, meanwhile, is recovering successful infirmary aft country for slug wounds and donations to enactment him person topped 2 cardinal Australian dollars (US$1.33m).

Morrison was 1 of 15 radical killed successful what is Australia’s worst wide shooting successful astir 30 years. Officials allege a begetter and son are the gunmen and accidental the onslaught is being investigated arsenic an “act of terrorism” targeting the Jewish community.

Another couple, who person not yet been identified, were besides filmed tackling 1 of the attackers to effort and halt him earlier seemingly being changeable dead.

The dashcam footage, verified by the Reuters quality agency, showed 1 shooter wrestling for a long-barrelled limb with an older antheral successful a lavender garment and shorts, earlier some autumn heavy to the crushed down a metallic hatchback car.

The antheral successful lavender, who is with a woman, gets up with the limb arsenic the footage moves on. Separate drone video shows the antheral and pistillate lying motionless adjacent to the conveyance beside the pedestrian span wherever the gunmen were aboriginal changeable by police.

“An aged antheral by the roadside did not tally distant – instead, helium charged consecutive toward the danger, utilizing each his spot trying to wrestle distant the weapon and warring to the death,” said dashcam proprietor Jenny, who shared the footage with Reuters.

“I tin spot from my camera that the aged antheral was yet changeable and collapsed. That infinitesimal broke my heart,” she added.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier this week praised the actions of Australians who had “run towards information successful bid to assistance others”.

“These Australians are heroes, and their bravery has saved lives,” helium told a quality conference.