![]() ![]() It was then that Wahabzadah said he returned to the mosque to discover the scope of the violence. He said he continued chasing after him but the shooter did a U-turn and raced off. “When he sees me I am chasing with a gun, he sat in his car”, Wahabzadah said. “And I just got the gun and throw it on his window like an arrow and blast his window. He thought probably I shot him or something and then he drive off." Wahabzadah told CNN he ran after the shooter and picked up a discarded weapon of the gunman, which he described as a “shotgun." He threw it at the gunman’s car, shattering his window. Wahabzadah said the shooter then dropped his weapon and ran back to his car. Wahabzadah said he thought the shooter went to get more weapons from his car. Wahabzadah’s four children were inside the mosque. “I was screaming at the guy, ‘Come here, I’m here’," Wahabzadah told CNN. "I just want him to put more focus on me than go inside the masjid (“mosque”). But unfortunately, he got himself to the masjid.” He threw the credit card reader at the suspect while shouting at him in an attempt to distract the shooter away from the mosque. Wellington (AFP) An inquest into New Zealand's 2019 mosque killings opened Tuesday, with relatives of the 51 people who died in the massacre hoping to discover if any lives could have been. Wahabzadah grabbed a credit card reader and ran outside the building. Although the video isn’t so gorey, the fact that you watched 50 people die stays with you. The next day it was all over the news that there was a shooting in new zealand and I recognized the mosque from the video and it made me sick. (AP/Mark Baker)Ībdul Aziz Wahabzadah says he was inside Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, when a gunman opened fire. Literally went downstairs and fell asleep. Multiple people were killed during shootings at two mosques full of people attending Friday prayers. Police stand outside a mosque in Linwood in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15. ![]()
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