Australian immigrant who tackled gunman 'riddled with bullets,' but 'said he’d do it again,' lawyer says

Ahmed al Ahmed, the Australian migrant who heroically wrested a weapon distant from 1 of the shooters progressive successful the deadly antisemitic panic onslaught connected Sunday successful Australia, said helium would bash it each implicit again, his migration lawyer Sam Issa, said, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

"He doesn’t regret what helium did. He said he’d bash it again. But the symptom has started to instrumentality a toll connected him," Sam Issa noted Monday nighttime aft visiting the wounded man, the outlet reported. "He’s not good astatine all. He’s riddled with bullets. Our leader is struggling astatine the moment."

The wounded Muslim father, 44, has daughters who are 5 and six-years-old, according to the outlet, which reported that helium came to Australia from Syria successful 2006 and aboriginal received citizenship successful 2022.

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New South Wales Premier Chris Minns visits Ahmed Al Ahmed, 43, astatine a infirmary successful Sydney, Australia, connected Dec. 15, 2025. (NSW premier Chris Minns Account / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Ahmed’s a humble man, he’s not funny successful coverage, helium conscionable did what helium was compelled to bash arsenic a quality being connected that day," Issa noted, according to the outlet. "He gets that gratitude from being successful Australia. This is his mode of conveying his gratitude for staying successful Australia, for being granted citizenship.

"He has truly appreciated this community, and helium felt that arsenic a subordinate of the community, helium had to enactment that mode and contribute."

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At slightest 15 radical were killed successful the shooting.

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Anthony Albanese, Australia's premier minister, during a quality league successful Sydney, Australia, connected Monday, Dec. 15, 2025.  (Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The onslaught "was an enactment of axenic evil," "antisemitism," and "terrorism" that was "deliberately targeted astatine the Jewish assemblage connected the archetypal time of Hanukkah," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said.