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The girl of 1 of the victims of Sunday's Bondi Beach panic attack told CBS News connected Monday that her begetter was "shot dormant for being Jewish," and she present believes Australia is not a harmless location for Jewish people.
Sheina Gutnick said that her father, Reuven Morrison, a 62-year-old Soviet-born subordinate of the ultra-orthodox Jewish assemblage successful Australia, was killed portion attempting to halt 1 of the 2 gunmen during Sunday's wide shooting, which Australian authorities person called an antisemitic panic attack.
"From my sources and understanding, helium had jumped up the 2nd the shooting started. He managed to propulsion bricks astatine the terrorist," Gutnick told CBS News successful Bondi connected Monday, referencing an effort to halt 1 of the gunmen that was caught connected camera during the onslaught the erstwhile day.
She said it was her begetter seen trying to halt 1 of the assailants aft different man, aboriginal identified arsenic 43-year-old effect seller Ahmed al Ahmed, confronted the fishy and wrestled a weapon distant from him.
"I judge aft Ahmed managed to get the weapon disconnected the terrorist, my begetter had past gone to effort and unjam the gun, to effort and effort shooting. He was screaming astatine the terrorist," she said. "My beloved father, Reuven Morrison was changeable dormant for being Jewish astatine a Hanukkah lawsuit connected Bondi Beach portion protecting lives, portion jumping up, putting his ain beingness astatine hazard to prevention his chap Jewish assemblage members."
Dramatic societal media video verified by CBS News Confirmed shows Morrison throwing objects astatine 1 of the suspected shooters aft different man, confirmed by Australian authorities arsenic Ahmed, tackled and disarmed him.
An undated household photograph shared with CBS News by Sheina Gutnick shows her with her father, Reuven Morrison, 62, who was among the 15 radical killed connected Dec. 14, 2025, erstwhile 2 gunmen opened occurrence connected a Jewish gathering astatine Bondi Beach successful Australia.
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Gutnick recalled the devastating infinitesimal that she recovered retired her begetter had been killed successful the attack.
"As my household was exiting a Hanukkah lawsuit successful Melbourne we heard quality from a person that determination was a shooting happening successful Sydney. I instantly felt the biggest pit successful my tummy and tried calling my begetter who did not prime up the phone. I past called my parent and I heard screaming, shouting. She was screaming that there's an progressive shooter," Gutnick said. "I called her backmost and she was yelling that he's running, he's running, and past that helium has been shot. After a fewer much attempts of hanging up and calling back, my parent was yelling for aesculapian assistance, screaming for an ambulance, screaming for help, asking for assistance ... she past advised that he's getting oxygen and hung up the phone."
She said she managed to get her parent backmost connected the phone, "and she was screaming that they had stopped moving connected him and that helium had been covered by a sheet. I was hoping successful her hysterical authorities that she was conscionable being delusional and that wasn't the case."
Gutnick said that she believes Australia is nary longer a harmless state for the Jewish community, and she blamed the country's government, accusing leaders of failing to code a rising tide of antisemitism.
Australian police, "lay connected the crushed successful the writer covering their heads, untrained for this massacre, untrained for what's to come, untrained for what the Jewish assemblage has been telling the Australian authorities is inevitable," Gutnick said, adding her dependable to a chorus of disapproval aft a documented emergence successful hatred attacks aimed astatine Australia's Jewish residents.
"Australia's not a location for Jews anymore. It can't be. If we are changeable dormant portion celebrating our spiritual festival of lights, of pride, of celebrating who we are, and if we can't bash that, Australia is not a location for america anymore. We can't beryllium here," she added
Morrison had fled the Soviet Union to flight antisemitic persecution 5 decades ago, Gutnick said, and said she was near with a consciousness of "betrayal" owed to the mode of her father's death.
"He came to Australia due to the fact that helium thought that this would beryllium safe," she said. "This is wherever helium was going to person a family, wherever helium is going to unrecorded a beingness distant from persecution."
"And for galore years, helium did bash that — helium lived a wonderful, escaped beingness — until Australia turned connected him."
"I consciousness betrayed by the government. I consciousness the signs were coming for a long, agelong time. The informing bells were there, and the authorities sat doing nothing."
"The Jewish assemblage are hurting today," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters Monday astatine a memorial connected Bondi Beach. "Today, each Australians wrapper our arms astir them and say, we basal with you. We volition bash immoderate is indispensable to stamp retired antisemitism. It is simply a scourge, and we volition eradicate it together."
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the country of the onslaught connected a Jewish vacation solemnisation astatine Sydney's Bondi Beach.
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One of the suspects, a begetter and son, was killed connected Sunday, and the younger antheral — who was investigated successful 2019 implicit suspected links to extremism but deemed to not correspond a menace — remained hospitalized successful a coma connected Monday, Albanese said.
"People's circumstances tin change," helium told reporters earlier a furniture gathering connected Monday. "People tin beryllium radicalized implicit a play of time. [Gun] Licences should not beryllium successful perpetuity."
"We are precise overmuch moving done the inheritance of some persons. At this stage, we cognize precise small astir them," New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said Monday.
Gutnick said that she would retrieve her begetter arsenic a leader who "went down fighting."
"He added truthful overmuch airy into the world. There was nary quality connected Earth you could comparison him to. If determination was 1 mode for him to spell from this Earth, helium would beryllium warring a terrorist. There was nary different mode helium would person been taken from us," Gutnick said.
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