{"id":193049,"date":"2025-12-15T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193049\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:43:08","slug":"who-are-the-bondi-beach-shooting-suspects-naveed-and-sajid-akram-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193049\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Bondi Beach shooting suspects, Naveed and Sajid Akram? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The alleged gunmen behind the Bondi beach attack are a father-son duo suspected of using legally obtained firearms to commit the massacre, according to police.<\/p>\n

Sajid Akram, 50, was shot dead by police at the scene. His son, Naveed Akram, 24, was shot but survived.<\/p>\n

The pair allegedly killed 15 people, with dozens more injured in the shootings, which took place on Sunday during a gathering to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n

Naveed Akram reportedly told his family they were going away for a weekend trip when he left the small bungalow in Bonnyrigg where he lived, in Sydney\u2019s far western suburbs.<\/p>\n

His mother told the Sydney Morning Herald: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have a firearm. He doesn\u2019t even go out. He doesn\u2019t mix around with friends. He doesn\u2019t drink, he doesn\u2019t smoke, he doesn\u2019t go to bad places … he goes to work, he comes home, he goes to exercise, and that\u2019s it,\u201d she said. \u201cAnyone would wish to have a son like my son … he\u2019s a good boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 24 year old brick layer, was arrested at the scene and taken to a Sydney hospital with critical injuries. <\/p>\n

The son was known to New South Wales police and security agencies, while his father had a firearms licence with six weapons registered to him. All six firearms have been recovered, police said.<\/p>\n

The 24 year old came under the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio) in October 2019, according to the prime minister, Anthony Albanese. He was examined for six months because of his alleged associations with others, with the ABC reporting claims that the counterterror investigation involved an Islamic State cell.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Naveed Akram] was examined on the basis of being associated with others and the assessment was made that there was no indication of any ongoing threat or threat of him engaging in violence,\u201d Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n

Mr Lanyon would not comment on reports claiming a manifesto or black Islamic State flag were found in the car driven to the scene by the alleged attackers.<\/p>\n

Naveed Sajid was an Australian-born citizen. His father had arrived in the country on a student visa in 1998, transferred in 2001 to a partner visa and had since been on resident return visas.<\/p>\n

Until recently, Naveed Akram had been working as a bricklayer. The man who employed him said he took him as an apprentice six years ago, describing him as a hard worker who never had time off.<\/p>\n

He said Mr Akram reported a couple of months ago that he had broken his wrist while boxing, and would not be able to work again until 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked for all his entitlements paid up, annual leave and everything, but a lot of guys do that at end of year anyway,\u201d said the employer, who did not wish to be named.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you can\u2019t help but think, him getting all his money out, what\u2019s he going to spend it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he was considered a quiet person: \u201cHe didn\u2019t associate with anyone else out of hours … he\u2019d have lunch himself, not with anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe had been doing some boxing outside of hours … he said the doctor told him have a couple of months off,\u201d the employer said. \u201cI asked if he could come back a bit sooner … being a good worker and everything, I thought, I don\u2019t want to lose this guy.<\/p>\n

Another bricklayer described Naveed as a strange colleague but a hard worker who had an interest in hunting. \u201cNo one was close to him,\u201d said the former colleague, who did not wish to be named.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou spend a lot of time together, obviously bricklaying \u2013 [which is a] pretty mind-numbing job, so you do a lot of talking, but he was just a weird operator.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although authorities have not said the son was a licensed firearms holder, the colleague claimed he hunted regularly, and spoke about shooting rabbits and other game around Crookwell, in the state\u2019s southern tablelands. \u2013 The Guardian and agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged gunmen behind the Bondi beach attack are a father-son duo suspected of using legally obtained firearms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[986,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-193049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}