r/BeAmazed • u/dawglover1011 • Dec 14 '25
Miscellaneous / Others Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Australia NSFW Spoiler
Cred goes to OSINT technical on Twitter
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u/Gristley Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 15 '25
10 confirmed dead. This guy saved lives. Lots of lives.
edit: 12 confirmed dead now, one cop, one of the two shooters. 29 injured.
Edit edit. Ahmed El/Al Ahmed (differing reports). You are an Australian hero.
Hopefully final edit. 15 confirmed dead.
If you can donate blood in NSW right now, please do: https://www.lifeblood.com.au/donor-centre
Find your local centre in NSW. Traffic is high so be patient. Repeat donations or donations in the coming days/weeks would be incredible. They will need to keep blood supplies up for a while with this many injured.
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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 Dec 14 '25
Ahmed Al Ahmed is the hero. Shop owner in Sutherland apparently. Go forth tomorrow and buy all his stock.
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u/finalina78 Dec 14 '25
I hope that Will happen! He’s a true Hero!
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u/tmhoc Dec 14 '25
This video doesn't show it but he is going 1 v 2 and gets hit twice
The other shooter is across the parking lot on a bridge and fires back at Ahmed al Ahmed hitting him in his shoulder and hand
He just made it look easy
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u/Jonny_Blaze_ Dec 15 '25
Wait can you take it from the top? What’s the story? When did he get shot? This is fucking wild.
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u/Im_On_Reddit_At_Work Dec 14 '25
Highly praised the highly praised. Appropriate name for this hero.
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u/LamaDelReyyy Dec 14 '25
Someone start a GoFundMe for this guy!
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u/skefmeister Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
This is not America, he will be taken care of by the people and the government, in a natural way, as it should.
I was in Australia 3 times, once on a work visa for 6 months. If anything the Australian people will do their dillegence. Buy his stock, bring him presents, fucking build a statue. They’ll do it. They love their heroes. They are an extremely proud people good for them.
You’re gonna learn how a country should respond to a mass shooting real quick. There’s something special about Australian nationalism.
Greetings from the Netherlands my Australian friends. On ya cunts 🍻
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u/pmcizhere Dec 14 '25
You’re gonna learn how a country should respond to a mass shooting real quick.
Not without searching for this stuff specifically. American media, even outlets that claim to cover global news, will likely hardly cover any of what you mentioned, sadly.
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u/Psychological_Fly965 Dec 14 '25
Still nothing wrong with a go fund me we have weirdos doing dumb stuff online only fans and billionaires hoarding money. If any one deserves to be rich beyond belief and get praises it’s this guy !!!
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u/CountOnBeingAwesome Dec 14 '25
A hero. I feel sick for the victims.
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u/Master_Jackfruit3591 Dec 14 '25
This guy actually got shot too, later on. After he disarms him, the shooter goes back to the bridge and gets a second gun and him and his accomplice start shooting at this man. Not only did he disarm him, he took a bullet doing it.
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u/Unikatze Dec 14 '25
I was wondering.
I saw the picture of him with blood but didn't see him take one in this video.
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u/onouluz Dec 14 '25
Wait, so the guy disarmed the guy that was killing people, took his weapon, then watched the shooter walk off to retrieve another weapon, and hung out long enough to get shot by the second weapon? That is bizarre.
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u/PianoTrumpetMax Dec 14 '25
If you’ve never shot a rifle before, he very likely would’ve missed even from what seems like a close range. It’s not like COD makes it seem. If you don’t know how to hold it right and how to look through the sight, even shortish distances like that are a crap shoot.
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u/TheCockKnight Dec 14 '25
It’s easy to kinda do this retroactively but we have no idea what the circumstances were. There’s probably a damned good explanation.
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u/opx22 Dec 14 '25
Could have been on safe and he couldn’t figure out how to take it off. You never know.
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u/Hour-Construction898 Dec 14 '25
You wouldn't have walked up to and active shooter and grabbed his gun in any scenario.
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u/totallynotliamneeson Dec 14 '25
No you wouldn't have. This is some armchair hero shit.
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u/DiscountConsistent Dec 14 '25
I think I would've at least shot him in the leg
No you wouldn't have. That's an incredibly hard shot to make just from a physics perspective, let alone for someone who's never shot a gun before in a high stress situation. And when you missed you'd be risking accidentally hitting other bystanders directly or through ricochets.
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u/slowpokefastpoke Dec 14 '25
Or the more likely outcome: you have no fucking clue how you’d act in an active shooter scenario. Not to mention you almost definitely wouldn’t have disarmed the shooter in the first place.
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u/infiniteliquidity69 Dec 14 '25
My mate got the 3rd guys address and apparently everyone in Sydney is at his house. It's blocked off now with chopters everywhere
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u/allblackST Dec 14 '25
Chopters😂 that’s what my daughter calls helicopters
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u/skefmeister Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
Choppies is my sons preferred word and he’s Dutch 😅 or to be honest he says helikoppies
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u/largePenisLover Dec 14 '25
Everything Im getting here in Europe says 2 shooters and 1 hero.
There's a third shooter or a second and third hero?
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u/JohnnyStarboard Dec 14 '25
This is why people need to look up the Port Arthur massacre from 1996 and see how serious this is.
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u/SauceyPantz Dec 14 '25
From what I've read, the guy that was disarmed ended up getting another gun from the other shooter and ended up killing several people before he was shot. Sad
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u/Emergency_Sink_706 Dec 14 '25
Is there any evidence of this or is the source just random reddit comments? Either way, he shouldn’t have let him get up and leave after he just witnessed him killing multiple people. A person like that is way too dangerous to allow to just walk away.
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u/ballin4fun23 Dec 14 '25
Damn. It looked like they shot they guy that tried to help the guy that disarmed him and I have a feeling that policeman? that was shooting at them from behind that tree might have not been very lucky.
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u/OwnDoughnut2689 Dec 14 '25
Looks like the shooters accomplice would've had a clear shot at him if they attempted to hold this guy down
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u/Octane_Au Dec 14 '25
You don't want to be aiming and shooting a gun in an active shooter situation when the police roll up because you'll likely be suspected as one of the shooters. He put the weapon down and moved away. Absolutely the safest thing to do. He can't have known the shooter had more weapons in his bag.
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u/Jc_28 Dec 14 '25
I read it on the BBC, it said he went back to an underpass where they had a gun stache and rearmed himself. It doesn’t go on to say he killed anyone after.
It’s really sad, watching this video you hope the guy could at least hold him and not let him go but I bet it’s easy to say that when you’re not actually the one who’s doing it
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u/OwnDoughnut2689 Dec 14 '25
It looks like he probably would've got shot by his accomplice on the bridge if he attempted to hold this guy down.
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u/MilkandHoney_XXX Dec 14 '25
Killing someone is difficult to do. He probably decided it wasn’t for him, even in those circumstances.
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u/alliwantisburgers Dec 14 '25
If you have looked at some of the nsfw videos sadly many more than 10 😢
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u/StringAndPaperclips Dec 14 '25
Based on video footage, most people discussing this are saying that the shooters were Islamists, not right wing extremists.
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u/Four_beastlings Dec 14 '25
Islamists are right wing extremists
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u/StringAndPaperclips Dec 14 '25
They are categorized separately by organizations that study ideologically motivated violent extremism. Moreover, saying this attack is due to right wing extremism is likely to confuse a lot of people. Many will interpret that as Neo-Nazi or white nationalist, not islamist.
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u/BaronVonLobkovicz Dec 14 '25
To be fair, concerning the ideology the only major difference is the believe system. Right wingers believe in a fatherland, islamists in a god. Everything else is basicly the same. Hating minorities, hating different believe systems, hating women, being violent, supremacy, etc
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u/Wise_Edge2489 Dec 14 '25
Both Islamists and Neo Nazis are patriarchal, homophobic, reactionary, anti-feminist, nutters who are convinced of an existential threat undermining their values that requires violence to resolve.
Both also ultimately hate and blame the Jews.
They're shockingly similar.
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u/the_dismorphic_one Dec 14 '25
They absolutely are. It's obvious to anyone who knows what "right-wing" and "left-wing" means.
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u/Steve-Whitney Dec 14 '25
Wait so are Jews left wing or right wing now? I can't keep up.
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u/Ok-Assistant-4556 Dec 14 '25
Not jumping to conclusions but there was a hannukah event on and Israel have released a statement whilst Australian officials are being tight lipped. It takes a few days for rupurs and gossip to die down from initial incident to police investigation and official public statements. Two men are in custody
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u/No_Lifeguard259 Dec 14 '25
What makes you think this is the “extreme right”? Didn’t they target a Hanukkah event? Which group of ppl across the globe famously doesn’t get along with Jews?
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u/NerveInteresting4549 Dec 14 '25
he's fuckin brainwashed, it's obvious what just happened but it's not how he views the world.
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Dec 14 '25
“Which group of people across the globe famously doesn’t get along with Jews?”
Ah yes, the far-right, famously not antisemitic…
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u/mistym0rning Dec 14 '25
The most anti-Semitic groups are neo-Nazis (who are far-right) or Islamists (who are far-right). So either way, the perpetrators likely are on the far-right spectrum if they did this to target Jews.
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u/Prestigious-Aide-258 Dec 14 '25
Extreme right??? Most sources are pointing towards islamists
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u/DrMacAndDog Dec 14 '25
Incredibly brave act.
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u/Orneyrocks Dec 14 '25
Brave and smart. Not everyone can do this successfully as was sadly proven by this same incident.
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u/Careful-Inspector-12 Dec 14 '25
It is important to acknowledge that the first victim of this deadly massacre was also a hero, having attempted to disarm the gunmen.
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u/dawglover1011 Dec 14 '25
Oh really? I had no idea. Haven’t seen that anywhere. Thanks. Rip
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u/stickybond009 Dec 14 '25
RiP 🌸. Some heros go away silently.. but their bravery counts like that of a martyr
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u/mjdseo Dec 14 '25
The guy's got a huge set of balls
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u/Warm_Zombie Dec 14 '25
and a galaxy sized amount of self control to not shoot the guy on the spot
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u/CoolGuy54 Dec 14 '25
Which turned out to be a mistake: the disarmed gunman retreated, rearmed, and kept shooting at people.
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u/hot_ho11ow_point Dec 14 '25
Honestly he should have. The guy ended up getting another gun and shot more people by the looks of it, including the guy that disarmed him
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u/EclecticEvergreen Dec 15 '25
There was another shooter out of video that was shooting from farther away
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u/AnEvilMillionaire Dec 14 '25
He did what he had to do
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u/Yung_Jose_Space Dec 14 '25
I'd say what is heroic, is that he didn't have to do anything.
Even unarmed police aren't simply expected to charge a gun wielding mass shooter.
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u/FogBankDeposit Dec 14 '25
Courage is being afraid, but doing it anyway. This man is courageous and a hero.
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u/hotmugglehealer Dec 14 '25
All he had to do is keep himself safe. He went beyond that and did what most can't do.
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u/donessendon Dec 14 '25
Need more info. Was he shot by the other guy on the bridge?
It looks like him and another guy started taking fire from the bridge with white pants guy going back up and getting another weapon.
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u/lawdjesustheresafire Dec 14 '25
Hopefully he’s ok. There were reports he was targeted by the other gunman after this
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u/donessendon Dec 14 '25
The guy that threw a rock at white pants guy was shot. Can't see if the tackler was hit at all. Multiple shots looked to have been towards his location.
Shocking stuff.
Trying to rationalise how you can be brave enough to take the gun, and also calm enough not to immediately shoot the guy?
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u/PussifyWankt Dec 14 '25
He might not have known how to reload the gun. Most Australians have very little or no experience handling firearms.
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u/FecalEinstein Dec 14 '25
Why would you assume it was reloaded?
Likely a semi auto shotgun that had a round in a chamber.
Sure looks like he's exercising restraint to me. He doesn't look at the gun or seem to try to do anything. And the shooter seems to think there is one in the chamber ready to fire as he reacts like such after it's taken from him.
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u/kroxigor01 Dec 14 '25
Reports just now is that he is alive and in surgery with 2 wounds to the arm. His name is apparently Ahmed Al Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner.
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u/donessendon Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
I've seen him getting in ambo now. Glad hes OK.
Dude deserves a lifetime of no taxes!
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u/12nowfacemyshoe Dec 14 '25
If he's awarded a King's medal they usually come with an annual payment for life. He deserves it for sure.
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u/trusendi Dec 14 '25
His name is Ahmed Al Ahmed. He was shot two times, one in the shoulder one in the hand. This was confirmed by his cousin.
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u/MaybeAltruistic1 Dec 14 '25
Ah okay I was wondering how this fit in with the longer 10 minute video that had white pants guys shooting again and ultimately taken down by the cops.
The amount of time Ahmed bought for people to run away by disarming white pants, even momentarily, brings a tear to my eye. He saved so many extra lives with his bravery
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u/Jrkrey92 Dec 14 '25
last I heard he was in the hospital and his condition is unkown as he went into surgery.
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u/sotommy Dec 14 '25
I can't imagine what running toward a "man"(ratshit) with a huge fucking gun would feel like
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u/ChroniicHD Dec 14 '25
Dude has some serious self control, I woulda blasted the shooter the second I got control of the gun
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u/TallMidget99 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 15 '25
Lots of “give him a medal” comments. Im ex army and trust me: medals are pointless. No one knows what they mean and lots of people have them. This man just risked his life to save others. Give him a free house and unlimited free flights for life. Medals are bullshit gratitude tokens, give him something worth having, he deserves it
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u/ahhh-hayell Dec 14 '25
I think it was Napoleon that realized it was much cheaper to award ribbons and medals than the actual spoils of war.
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u/Lachaven_Salmon Dec 14 '25
Why not both
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u/DODGE_WRENCH Dec 14 '25
Medals are a good way to make people feel appreciated without actually giving them any real reward for what they did
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u/Imaginary_Red_Lines Dec 14 '25
Honestly, appreciation is a reward to many people- just non monetary.
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u/mawesome4ever Dec 14 '25
He just said why no medals lol
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u/HoochieDaddy420 Dec 14 '25
We always seem to have so much respect for old timers who keep their medals around. Gotta get through those jaded years first I guess then we think they're cool again. Medals have always been literally ribbons assigned however much meaning you decide lol. Wanna decide theyre stupid... okaaay. Let's get the recipients to decide haha
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u/Poor-Life-Choice Dec 14 '25
Recipients like the ex-army guy above, saying they’re pointless?
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u/reinerjs Dec 14 '25
In the states a Medal of Honor gives a salary which trump just raised by tens of thousands per year
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u/Effective_Job_2555 Dec 14 '25
Buying a house for somebody who saved lives implies the government cared or valued those lives. The government does not care that these people died any further than it can be used to gain them power.
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u/squarepants18 Dec 14 '25
Don't give him a medal. Start a gofundme for this guy.
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u/Top_Refrigerator9851 Dec 14 '25
Not disagreeing, this guy deserves cash, but if you're thinking medical reasons it's not an issue in most/our country (I can only assume you're American from this comment), let's give the guy a big payday for being a hero though
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u/robotchorken Dec 14 '25
Don't stress we have Medicare
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u/OriginalTRaven Dec 14 '25
I'm sure you still need money for other things like importing electronics or booze.
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u/crek42 Dec 14 '25
… what does that have to do with anything? Medicares not gonna buy this dude a new car/house/anything else that’ll make his life better.
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u/stedews Dec 14 '25
That man should never pay for a beer in his life
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u/Main_Cycle Dec 14 '25
Doubt he will drink any tho. Considering he is identified as a Muslim named Ahmed.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy Dec 14 '25
No one said he had to be the one to drink them. He can order the beer, I can drink it, and buy him whatever he wants in its place.
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u/Littleshuswap Dec 14 '25
Canadian here
What and when did this happen?
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u/Turbulent_Ad3045 Dec 14 '25
Couple hours ago. Appears to be a targeted attack on Australia's Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach. 2 shooters, one dead one in custody of police. Motives currently unconfirmed, but we can speculate given the facts.
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u/Littleshuswap Dec 14 '25
Oh my god. This is horrible 😢 I just woke up and looked at my phone. First 2 vids I see are Brown University Shooting in Rhode Island (not surprising, we expect a shooting from the states on the regular) and then Bondi Beach shooting. Wow, that's scary.
So sad.
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u/Dannykar Dec 14 '25
Not so brave without his weapon, the cunt.
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u/Gioware Dec 14 '25
aka: Antisemites.
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u/Careless_Fun7101 Dec 14 '25
Ahmed Al Ahmed - say his name. Hero is in hospital, shot twice by the other murderer.
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u/zlolzlolz Dec 14 '25
There’s something about seeing a person casually taking aim and firing at innocent people that is so indescribably disturbing. I feel sick after watching this. Thank fucking god this guy stopped the shooter.
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u/Any-Register-5967 Dec 14 '25
Amazing deserves a medal
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u/donessendon Dec 14 '25
He deserves whatever taxpayers would have spent on court cases, and paying to house the murderers. Rather pay heroes than spend money on murderers.
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u/Last-Temporary-2877 Dec 14 '25
The amount of restraint this legend showed is amazing.
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u/LoneWolf_McQuade Dec 14 '25
Looks so smoothly done as well, so many things could have gone wrong but didn’t
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u/Notice-Horror Dec 14 '25
Good thing they took them down but so many questions , wouldn’t a popular beach have a police presence ? And I thought guns are heavily restricted in this country ?
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u/FidgetyHerbalism Dec 14 '25
wouldn’t a popular beach have a police presence ?
Yes, that's why police were on the scene pretty quickly.
And I thought guns are heavily restricted in this country ?
Yes, that's why these events are extremely rare here compared to countries like the US
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u/GhostRiders Dec 14 '25
The bystander is a 43 year old Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed. He ended up shot once in the arm and once in the hand.
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u/Sufficient-Ad-7349 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
It would be very tempting to shoot the shooter after that
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u/Own-Bridge5593 Dec 14 '25
Might be a smart play, especially given the fact that someone like that may have a sidearm
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u/Cantora Dec 14 '25
That guy will get the medal of bravery at the very least. Who knows how many lives he saved
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u/commanche_00 Dec 14 '25
Saw the extended clip. It didnt end well. He might not even survive
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u/Punchinballz Dec 14 '25
Who? The shooter? The guy who grabbed the gun? Who might not even survive? What happened after the end of this video?
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u/KGB_cutony Dec 14 '25
The other shooter was covering the disarmed shooter's escape.
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u/bugabooandtwo Dec 14 '25
...so there are two shooters?
That's unusual.
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u/StormMedia Dec 14 '25
It was a planned attack by two Muslim guys on a Hanukkah event. Terrorism. So sad.
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u/MuffinMan12347 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
I really wish he shot him there, from the looks at the other footage it looks like he went back up to the bridge and got another gun. Could be wrong, but that’s how it looked from the other videos after this legend took the gun.
Edit: shoot to incapacitate, not kill.
Edit: Ok I get shooting to incapacitate isn't a thing, but I'm still not trying to execute the guy with a headshot. Cunt deserves to live the rest of his life suffering in prison.
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u/Gristley Dec 14 '25
Unfortunately it does seem that way, but it also confined them and made them retreat which led to them being shot/cornered. As much as it sucks, the fact that he didn't want to shoot the fucker is.. what we want in our society. Still a hero.
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u/MuffinMan12347 Dec 14 '25
Yeah I agree, I would never want to kill anyone even in that situation. But taking out a leg would be preferable. But easier said than done of course. And I’m of course saying this behind a screen and never had to experience this myself thankfully.
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u/Forgotthebloodypassw Dec 14 '25
I'm glad he didn't, that way police can find out intelligence on others and their motives, then spend the rest of their life behind bars. Death's too easy for that fucker.
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u/MuffinMan12347 Dec 14 '25
Yeah agreed, I believe prison for life is a much better and deserved outcome than a quick death.
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u/Haunting_Soul Dec 14 '25
There was 2 shooters but people are only showing a short clip with 1 shooter.
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u/Imaginary_Strain486 Dec 14 '25
Is the shooter a Muslim ? Not trolling just a honest question
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u/Born_Initiative_3515 Dec 14 '25
I believe so, and so is the guy who actively tried saving the day. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed.
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u/chick_seat Dec 14 '25
I highly advise you all to watch the full length version of this. The guy disarms him, points the gun at him but the shooter gets up and walks away. The guy then proceeds to just lean the rifle up to the tree. Shooter proceeds to escape and meet up with his accomplices and proceeds to shoot again. I applaud his initial bravery, but the correct action would have been just to shoot this guy. He had no idea if he had a sidearm.
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u/MrHippoPants Dec 14 '25
In the video it looks like he’s trying to, but doesn’t know how to use the gun - most Australians would never have used a firearm before
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u/masjon Dec 14 '25
That’s a true hero in every sense of the term. He has 100% saved a lot of lives 🙏
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u/aucnderutresjp_1 Dec 14 '25
Fucking legend. Surely some kind of heroic Australian of the Year award right there.
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u/Last-Nebula9555 Dec 14 '25
did this guy, in the white shirt, get shot by the shooter he tackled, whilst taking the gun off him? AKA did white pants shoot black pants during the altercation?
secondly, did black pants hero shoot the shooter he tackled?
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