Timeline: How the Bondi Beach mass shooting unfolded

Australia is reckoning with its deadliest wide shooting successful decades aft a begetter and lad opened fire connected crowds gathered for a Jewish festival astatine Bondi Beach.

Using recently released constabulary allegations, witnesser testimony, and authoritative statements, AFP pieced unneurotic a timeline of the December 14 onslaught that killed 15 radical and wounded dozens.

Naveed Akram, 24, an Australian-born citizen, is accused of joining his 50-year-old begetter Sajid Akram successful a shooting spree aimed astatine Jewish crowds gathered to observe Hanukkah.

‘Teenage IS supporter’

Naveed Akram archetypal caught the oculus of Australia’s quality bureau successful 2019, erstwhile helium was a teen allegedly rubbing shoulders with supporters of the Islamic State radical successful Sydney.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said 2 of Naveed’s associates were aboriginal jailed, but helium was not considered a superior menace and mostly fell disconnected the radar.

Training

Police allege video recovered connected Naveed’s mobile telephone from precocious October shows the begetter and lad training, “firing shotguns and moving successful a tactical manner” successful the countryside, perchance New South Wales.

In the aforesaid month, constabulary accidental mobile video shows them successful achromatic T-shirts successful beforehand of an Islamic State emblem alongside 4 long-barrelled guns and rounds of ammunition.

Airbnb hideaway

Police accidental Naveed made an online booking connected October 20 for 1 country wrong a five-bedroom Airbnb location located successful the southwestern Sydney suburb of Campsie, reserving it from December 2-21.

Philippines trip

Indian-born Sajid, who entered Australia connected a visa successful 1998, and his lad Naveed booked a travel to the confederate Philippines for November.

The intent of their sojourn remains unclear.

GV Hotel unit successful Davao City person told AFP the brace arrived November 1 and stayed for 28 days, leaving their tiny country lone for abbreviated periods. Philippine detectives are poring implicit CCTV video to hint their movements and contacts.

Gone fishing

Naveed told his household earlier the shooting that helium was taking his begetter connected a sportfishing travel to Jervis Bay, astir 2 hours southbound of Sydney.

“Anyone would privation to person a lad similar my son... he’s a bully boy,” his mother, Verena, told section media.

Two days earlier the shooting

CCTV images adjacent Bondi Beach from 9:20 p.m. connected December 12 allegedly amusement the begetter and lad parking for suspected “reconnaissance and readying of a violent attack”.

According to police, the brace locomotion to the aforesaid footbridge from wherever they are accused of firing into crowds 2 days later.

Early hours of December 14

At 2:16 a.m. section clip connected the time of the shooting, constabulary allege CCTV captures them leaving the Airbnb location and placing weapons hidden nether blankets successful a 2001 Hyundai Elantra car registered to Naveed.

According to police, they packed 2 single-barrel shotguns, a Beretta rifle, 3 tube bombs, 1 tennis shot bomb, and 1 ample explosive instrumentality — arsenic good arsenic 2 Islamic State radical flags.

They past instrumentality to their lodgings.

Driving to Bondi Beach

At 5:09 p.m. the CCTV captures the suspects leaving the Airbnb and driving towards Bondi, constabulary say. Naveed wears a achromatic T-shirt and achromatic pants. His begetter wears a achromatic T-shirt and achromatic pants.

Police accidental the car is tracked by cameras until it parks astatine Campbell Parade by a footbridge astatine the formation astatine 6:50 p.m., and the brace allegedly spot Islamic State flags connected the wrong of the beforehand and rear windscreens.

They are accused of removing 3 firearms, the tube bombs and the tennis shot weaponry earlier moving towards the footbridge.

Police accidental the tube bombs and tennis shot weaponry were thrown towards the crowds — but they cannot accidental which fishy threw them. The tube bombs were allegedly viable but did not detonate.

A abbreviated clip later, constabulary allege, Sajid and Naveed Akram “armed with the 3 firearms, began shooting towards the crowd”.

Panic

Thousands of beachgoers dropped everything and fled for their lives arsenic the gunshots rang out.

“We are inactive asking radical successful the country to instrumentality structure until we tin find what is happening,” constabulary said connected societal media soon aft 7 p.m.

A squad of off-duty lifeguards sprinted crossed the soil to resistance children to safety. Others overmuch person to the gunmen sought immoderate screen they could find.

Taking shelter

Churches, bars and restaurants threw their doors unfastened to structure the panicked crowds.

Frenchman Alban Baton, 23, hid for respective hours with different customers successful a market store chill room.

At astir that time, Sajid Akram near a footbridge that offered a commanding presumption of the country and precocious towards the festival.

As Sajid fired into the crowd, shopkeeper Ahmed Al Ahmed — who had been getting java with friends — approached him from down and tackled him successful a courageous enactment broadcast astir the world.

Ahmed wrestled the weapon distant earlier pointing it astatine the assailant, who past backed away.

Ahmed was changeable doubly but it is not wide erstwhile oregon by whom.

Police arrival

Armed constabulary arrived astir 10 minutes into the shooting, arsenic Sajid rejoined his lad connected the footbridge.

Sajid was killed successful an speech of occurrence with police. Naveed allegedly kept shooting until helium was changeable successful the abdomen, hospitalised and charged with offences including coercion and 15 murders.

Witnesses cheered arsenic helium fell to the ground.

Aftermath

Sirens blared arsenic CPR was frantically administered to the bodies strewn crossed the beachfront.

One witnesser described it arsenic a “war zone”.

At astir 9:36 p.m., New South Wales Premier Chris Minns declared the wide shooting a violent attack. Authorities confirmed the adjacent greeting that 15 radical were killed.