The video ended with him driving away from the scene, the Herald reported.Photographs on the man’s Twitter page, which has since been taken down by the platform, show weapons which match the ones used in the video, scrawled with the names of infamous mass shooters He then re-entered the mosque, firing at people lying motionless on the ground. 'Looks like we won't get the bird today, boys,' he said in the video.Īt another point, he said, “There wasn’t even time to aim, there was so many targets,” he says at one point,' the New York Times reported. He got more ammunition out of his car trunk, the Herald reported, then shot at no apparent target on the street. Video showed him shooting randomly at cars. He stopped to reload several times, the Herald reported, and then resumed firing repeatedly.Īfter three minutes inside, the gunman exited through the mosque's front door. He shot a second victim who was crawling in the main hallway, then blocked the hallway and began shooting at people who were cowering in corners of a room. The New Zealand Herald, which watched the live-stream video, reported that the gunman 'began shooting indiscriminately' upon entering the mosque. The names of mass killers were written in white on his weapons, multiple outlets reported. More: 'I saw dead people everywhere': Multiple fatalities in two mosque shootings in New Zealand, police say

In Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Friday that an Australian citizen had been arrested in the mosque shootings. In a 73-page manifesto posted to various sites including Twitter and Scribd that appeared to belong to the gunman, he identified himself as a 28-year-old white man born in Australia and listed white nationalist heroes.

After parking his car, the man armed himself with at least one weapon and walked into the mosque, immediately shooting a person in the doorway. The Facebook video began with the man driving up to Masjid Al Noor mosque in the city of Christchurch.

A gunman who opened fire inside a New Zealand mosque on Friday appeared to live-stream his attack in a 17-minute video that looked to be recorded on a helmet camera.

Christchurch livestream shooting video