Christchurch: A white supremacist shooter filmed himself gunning down dozens of worshippers at a mosque in New Zealand while streaming the massacre online, reports Dalymail.The gunman, who called himself Brenton Tarrant on Twitter, entered the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch about 1.30pm on Friday during afternoon prayers and opened fire.
The horrifying 17-minute video streamed on his Facebook shows the man, believed to be a 28-year-old Australian, firing more than 100 shots from multiple rifles at those inside. Up to 49 people were killed and more than 48 were seriously injured during the rampage. Many were shot at point blank range in the building as they huddled together in corners while a woman was heard begging for help before he shot her in the head.
Tarrant’s rampage began when he got into his car wearing military-style body armour and a helmet with a series of rifles on the passenger seat. The weapons, including a semi-automatic shotgun he used, are scrawled with the names of past mass killers and cities where the shootings occurred. After adjusting items of clothing, he says: ‘Remember lads, subscribe to PewDiePie’ and drives off with a sat nav giving him instructions on how to reach the mosque.
According to Bellingcat, the shooter listens to a folk song called ‘Remove Kebab’ – originally a propaganda video made by Serbian soldiers as a tribute to war criminal Radovan Karadži. As he drives up an alley, someone steps out in front of him and he calmly gives him the thumbs up and signals for him to cross the road. He then parks up and opens his door before retrieving a gun from the boot of his car – one of at least six weapons in the vehicle.
After calmly walking to the entrance of the mosque, he sees an individual at the entrance and opens fire with nine quick shots. Several times he stands over wounded men, calmly reloading his gun, then shooting them multiple times to make sure they are dead. At one point a man sprints towards him in a bid to flee to safety only to be gunned down as well.
A minute later, he exits the mosque before firing several rounds left and right along a pavement. Children’s screams can be heard in the distance as he returns to his car to get what appears to be a scoped rifle. Seconds later, he moves closer and starts shooting individual worshippers in the head in an apparent effort to ensure they are dead. He repeats this on the other side of the room, stopping to shoot another fallen victim in the head on the way.
Seemingly satisfied that everyone has been killed, the gunman sprints outside. Here, he shoots another person on the mosque’s front lawn. The woman stumbles on to the street and can be seen lying face down yelling ‘help me, help me’ as the shooter walks up to her.
Tarrant calmly leans over her and shoots her twice in the head. Returning to his car once more, just yards away from the body, he slams the car boot shut. Fire by English rock band The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown can be heard blasting from the speakers.
The singer bellows ‘I am the god of hellfire!’. Back in the car, and after apparently driving over the woman he had just killed, he laughs as he says the attack ‘did not go as planned … f*****g Christ’ before adjusting his sat nav. Analysing his slaughter, he says he was ‘too quick, I should have stayed longer. There was time for the fuel.’
He expressed regret for not ‘burning that f*****g mosque to the ground’. Moments later, the sound of a police car’s siren can be heard as the music in the car gets louder and louder. He continues to discuss the attack, noting, as he drives at high speeds, that ‘the women weren’t in yet I guess the men came in … earlier.’
The gunman posted a 73-page manifesto to Twitter before the killings, foreshadowing a ‘terrorist attack’. He also claimed to be inspired by Candace Owens, an outspoken backer of United States president Trump.
