He just looked at me, and he just give me the finger and said: 'I f****** killed all of you.''įamily and friends remember him playing a lot of video games when he was younger and having trouble with women.įollowing the attack, his grandmother Marie Fitzgerald said she was 'gobsmacked' when she saw the news and the family was devastated for the victims. Then I chased him to his car, and I just threw the shotgun at his side window and I smashed his side window.
Tarrant continued to ruthlessly shoot the worshippers, throwing his weapons down when they were empty, one of which Abdul picked up and pursued him with. But unfortunately, he came inside and shot a lot of brothers and sisters,' he says. I didn't want him to come inside the mosque because we had between 80 to 100 people praying that day and I wanted him to focus on me. 'I was screaming, yelling at him 'Come, I'm here'. Then I saw another body,' he told us.ĭesperately, Abdul tried everything he could think of to get Tarrant's attention and draw his fire away from the packed Islamic centre. 'Then I saw the coward come from the back of his car, and I just threw the machine at him and tried to tuck up between the cars. 'I went outside and I saw a body there and a body there, and I was screaming and yelling 'Who are you? Where are you?'
