The gunman then walks back into the mosque, where there are at least two dozen people lying on the ground. A still image taken from video circulated on social media, apparently taken by a gunman and posted online live as the attack unfolded, shows him entering a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 15, 2019. Children's screams can be heard in the distance as he returns to his car to get another rifle. He then walks outside to the street, where he shoots at people on the sidewalk. The gunman spends more than two minutes inside the Masjid Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch, spraying terrified worshippers with bullets again and again, sometimes re-firing at people he has already cut down. New Zealand shooting: Australian man charged with murder 04:21Ĭhristchurch, New Zealand - Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people in what the prime minister said could 'only be described as a terrorist attack.' Authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack.Ī video that was apparently livestreamed by the shooter, identified by sources to CBS News as Australian national Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, shows the attack in horrifying detail.
