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When racist striker Brenton Tarrant stormed the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch on Friday, little Mucad Ibrahim tried to escape, while his father and older brother claimed to be dead.
The three-year-old girl was identified yesterday as the youngest victim of the New Zealand mbadacre in which two mosques were targeted – Al Noor and the nearby Linwood mosque – and at least 49 Muslims were killed.
The boy's family was desperately looking for him after the attack, but confirmed his death on Facebook late Friday, the Daily Mail reported.
Abdi, Mucad's big brother, said he fled the mosque as soon as possible, thinking that his little brother would be in the hospital.
"In truth, we belong to God and we will come back to him," said his family. "I'll miss you dearly, brother."
Little Mucad was not the only child shot by Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian, during his attacks. A four-year-old child whose name was not revealed was also found among the dead, as did 14-year-old Sayyad Milne.
Of the 39 people treated for their injuries at the hospital, there is a four-year-old girl in critical condition, while a two-year-old boy and a 13-year-old teenager are in stable conditions.
A woman who lost her husband during Friday's mbad shootings cries in front of a family information center on Saturday, March 16, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Image: AP
Tarrant stormed both mosques, calmly opening fire on about 100 people during Friday prayers, during an attack that he filmed and broadcast on Facebook Live.
When he appeared in court on Friday under police custody, he made a white supremacial sign with his hands and smiled crookedly, repeatedly turning on the dock to see how many journalists were present and what attention had attracted his attack.
Joyce, her 94-year-old grandmother, said in an interview that her grandson was a "good boy" whom she saw for the last time on Christmas in their hometown of Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.
He was not on any terrorist watch list and was never wanted for a crime.
His mother, Sharon, is a high school teacher who taught an English clbad while her son was conducting his attack. When the reporters started calling her school, she was out of clbad and told what had happened.
The family confirmed to the police that the man on the sequence was their son.
"It's very shocking, especially [it being] Brenton is a good boy, "said Joyce.
"He was always kind and kind and was sure to visit us twice a year."
SOLIDARITY Yesterday, in front of the mosque of the Indian state of Jammu, Muslims hold signs and chants religious slogans, after having organized a prayer meeting for the victims of the Friday mosque mbadacres in New Zealand. Image: REUTERS
Joyce said Tarrant, who previously worked as a personal trainer and traded in Bitcoin to finance his long travels around the world, showed no signs of extremist ideology in his last conversation.
Tarrant also published a 74-page racist manifesto describing his extremist views against "invaders."
Naeem Rashid, a Pakistani man, is one of Tarrant's victims. He tried to escape the weapon during the attack to save other faithful. Rashid was seriously injured and died later in the hospital. His 21-year-old son, Talha, was also killed.
The victims of Tarrant are from the Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
In his manifesto, Tarrant stated that he was not a member of any organization and acted alone. He said he chose New Zealand – where Muslims make up only 1% of the population – to show that Muslim immigration concerns all countries.
While Tarrant was leading his slaughter with weapons bearing slogans of white supremacy, he was listening to a song glorifying a Bosnian Serb war criminal imprisoned for killing Bosnian Muslims.
The Serbian nationalist song, born of the Balkan war of the 1990s, glorifies the Serbian fighters and the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžic, who is currently in prison for genocide.
AIn addition, in his reading list, the Fire song of Arthur Brown's The Crazy World was Fire, in which the singer shouted, "I am the god of hellfire! – Additional report by Daily Mail, CNN, Al-Jazeera
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