The Al Noor Mosque - New Zealand Mass Shooting

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

I just recently attended an "Active Attacker Response Awareness Training Class" sponsored by the Lake County Sheriff's Office (LCSO).

After a brief introduction to the class, the instructor then showed 25 seconds of the shooting.

You see, I was not aware that the shooter was wearing a GO PRO camera.

For obvious reasons, the entire 17 minutes of the attack were not shown, but the initial images were not only heartbreaking to watch, but eye opening as to what NOT to do when an active shooter is present.

Also, the fact that he had mounted a strobe-light to the rifle to disorient his targets seemed to be something new to active shooters.

Thought I would share, even though this event occurred back in March 2019.

 

Excerpts from Wikipedia:

 

The gunman arrived at the Al Noor Mosque, Riccarton, and began shooting worshipers at around 1:40 pm. Police received the first emergency call at 1:41 pm. Between three hundred and five hundred people may have been inside the mosque attending Friday Prayer at the time of the shooting.  A neighbor of the mosque told reporters he saw the gunman flee and drop what appeared to be a firearm in the driveway.

The gunman live-streamed the first 17 minutes of this attack on Facebook Live, starting with the drive to the Al Noor mosque and ending with the drive away.

 

As he approached the front entrance to the mosque, the gunman appeared to be greeted by one of the worshipers, who said "Hello, brother" and was the first victim to be killed in the attacks. The gunman spent several minutes inside the mosque, shooting attendees indiscriminately. He killed three people near the entrance and dozens more inside a prayer hall. A strobe-light attached to one of his weapons was used to disorient victims. During the attack, a worshiper, Naeem Rashid, charged at him and was shot; Rashid later died from his injuries. The gunman fired indiscriminately at worshipers in the prayer hall from close range, shooting many of his victims multiple times. He then left the mosque and fired on more people outside. Returning to his vehicle, he retrieved another weapon from his trunk before returning to the mosque and again opening fire; many of those fired upon were already wounded and unable to escape. The gunman exited the mosque once more and killed a woman lying wounded on the footpath as she pleaded for help. He then returned to his car and fled the scene... 

 

He had spent about six minutes at the Al Noor Mosque. As the gunman drove away from the mosque, the first emergency services arrived on scene. About three minutes after the gunman left the mosque, his vehicle passed by one or more police vehicles heading towards the mosque, but remained undetected as he continued on his way to the Linwood Islamic Centre.

[Sixgun Sheridan]

Same story... madman craves attention so he commits the most heinous atrocity he can think of and uses social media to promote it. Rince and repeat.