The Bondi Beach murderers have been identified as a father and son team:
Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old accomplice are believed to be father and son, authorities said on Monday.
The father was killed at the scene during a shootout with police, while Akram is in the hospital after being critically wounded by cops.
Charming. [UPDATE: But this suggests they were unrelated.] Between them they reportedly owned six legal firearms, which I believe is unusual in Australia.
The attack went on for more than ten minutes:
New video shows the terror at Bondi Beach
For 15 minutes, hundreds of families were taking cover on the ground, fearing for their lives.
You can hear just how many children were there. So many people will suffer from life-long mental trauma after this… pic.twitter.com/gZKADDsdue
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 14, 2025
Police response is being criticized:
One of the survivors of the terror attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration said four police officers just “froze” during the 20-minute rampage on Sunday that killed 11.
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“Twenty minutes, there was four policemen there. Nobody give fire back. Nothing. Like they froze,” he said of the slow response. “I don’t understand why.”
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It wasn’t until a local good Samaritan, a local fruit seller, disarmed one of the terrorists that police appeared to return fire, taking out one of the shooters, video shows.
We have seen this before. Sometimes police respond heroically in crisis situations, other times they don’t. Bondi Beach is not some isolated wilderness, it is a hugely popular recreation area within Sydney’s city limits. It is summer in Australia, and Bondi must be constantly crowded. I can’t imagine that the Sydney police department doesn’t have officers stationed there at all times.
Scott posted the video of the civilian who disarmed one of the murderers, but for some reason didn’t appear to shoot him, at least not fatally. The civilian’s name is Ahmed al-Ahmed, apparently a Muslim like the terrorists. [UPDATE: It has been claimed on X that he is a Maronite Christian. In any event he is certainly a Middle Easterner, like the murderers.] He is deservedly being hailed as a hero.
Incidents like the Bondi Beach massacre produce rays of hope:
A man told how his three-year-old daughter had been protected by a stranger who took a bullet for the girl.
Wayne told Sky News he had been looking for his daughter, called Gigi, when he saw a woman, named Jess, covered in blood lying on top of the girl.
He said: “I was standing at the west end of the park when the shooting started. I grabbed my other daughter and dived.”
He said “absolute panic” set in when he realised he couldn’t see Gigi.
“I was looking, there was just blood and bodies everywhere. I found [a girl], I saw she was wearing a pink skirt and I saw this lady lying on top of her; she had been shot.
“She said: ‘I’ve got your daughter. I’ve been protecting her.’ She was lying on top of Gigi. Gigi was lying under her, petrified. I saw the blood, I got the fright of my life.
“[The woman] said: ‘Don’t worry, that’s not her blood, that’s my blood.’
“I took her name and number and said: ‘You’ve saved my daughter’s life.’ She was going to hospital, she said she was okay. The lady next to her was lifeless and had been shot.
Why is it that two people can terrorize hundreds? Because they are armed, and the hundreds aren’t. I think Jews all over the world need to arm themselves and think in terms of defending themselves at all times. Sometimes police respond effectively, sometimes they don’t. And usually police aren’t there when you need them; not right away, anyway. As Glenn Reynolds has pointed out, in every mass shooting incident there is one group that, by definition, is going to be there–the victims. Only they don’t necessarily have to be victims.
Finally, “Catturd’s” commentary is the one most widely seen on Twitter:
One of these men was banned from Australia. pic.twitter.com/1SxM7Pvs7R
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 14, 2025
