Abdul Aziz, who is being hailed for distracting and confronting the mosque shooter, speaks in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Aziz said he charged at the shooter outside the Linwood mosque when someone shouted that a gunman had opened fire.“He had on army clothes. I wasn’t sure if he was the good guy or the bad guy. When he swore at me, I knew that he’s not the good guy,” Aziz told Reuters in an interview. He then picked up a gun dropped by the shooter and pulled the trigger, but it was empty, “I was screaming at the guy, come over here, come over here – I just wanted to put his focus on me.”
“He sat in his car and with the shotgun in my hands, I threw it through his window like an arrow. He just swore at me and took off.”Nearly 100 Muslim worshippers who had taken cover in the mosque as the rampage unfolded were left unharmed. Rashid, from Abbottabad, Pakistan, and a New Zealand resident for nine years, was in the mosque with his 21-year-old son.Safi Rizwan, a nephew of Naeem Rashid in Abbottabad, said his uncle had left a message for everyone.
Police say they caught him 36 minutes after being alerted of the incident at Al-Noor mosque at 1.42pm on Friday.
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