Hero: the man who fought the New Zealand shooter and avoided new deaths in the massacre

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) – Abdul Aziz was with his four children at the Linwood Mosque during Friday prayers, when he saw her arrive. Brenton Tarrant
He was shooting at them and he decided to do something. He threw away the first thing he saw, a
posnet (a machine for credit card payments), and started running to the shooter of "Come here!"

Since then, Aziz is designated as the hero who prevented more deaths

during the attack

against the Linwood Mosque in Christchurch, the second that attacked Tarrant in less than an hour. After pulling the shooter into a cat-and-mouse chase, he managed to escape at full speed in his car.

However, Aziz, 48, does not consider himself a hero: he says he did what anyone in his place would have done.

The
Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, 28,
was indicted today for the 49 murders that he inflicted yesterday at two mosques, during the deadliest shootout in New Zealand's modern history, and one judge said that It was reasonable to badume that other charges would follow him.

His terrorist raid, which he himself broadcast live on Facebook, ended the life of 41 people in the Al Noor mosque before driving about 5 kilometers from the Linwood mosque, where he killed seven other people. One person died later in the hospital.

The moment of the attack

Alabi, the Imam of Linwood Mosque, said the death toll would have been much higher in his mosque without Aziz.

Alabi said he heard a voice outside the mosque around 13:55 (local time) when he stopped the prayer he was directing and peeked out the window. He saw a man wearing black military-style clothing and a helmet, brandishing a large rifle, and badumed that he was a policeman. Then he saw two corpses and heard the gunman shouting vulgarities. "I realized that it was something different, it's a murderer," he said.

He shouted to the congregation of more than 80 people to bend over. They doubted There was a shot, a broken window and a fallen corpse, and people began to realize that everything was real.

"Then this brother came [por Aziz] . He pursued it and he managed to dominate it, and that's how we were saved, "said Alabi. If not, if he could have entered the mosque, he would probably have killed us all. "

Aziz said that while he was running outside the mosque shouting, he had been trying to distract the attacker. Tarrant then rushed to his car to take another gun and that's when he launched the credit card machine.

The young Australian returned by shooting. Aziz said that he was running while searching the cars parked in front of the entrance, which prevented the attacker from shooting him accurately. Then, the "hero" saw a weapon that the suspect had left and took it, pointed it and pulled the trigger. It was empty. Tarrant went back to the car, probably to take another gun.

"He got in his car and I just took the gun and throw it at his window like an arrow and break the window," he said. The windshield shattered: "That's why he got scared." And he left.