24-year-old Naveed Akram, who committed the mass shooting with his father, had been on the radar of Australian authorities.
One of the Bondi Beach gunmen, 24-year-old Naveed Akram, came to the attention of Australia’s domestic intelligence agency six years ago for his close ties to a Sydney-based Islamic State terrorism cell, ABC News Australia reported Monday.
Naveed and his father, Sajid Akram, 50, killed 15 people Sunday evening when they opened fire on the “Chanukah by the Sea” event celebrating the first day of the Jewish festival.
The attack on more than 1,000 people gathered at Bondi Beach’s Archer Park around 6:47 p.m. local time marks one of Australia’s deadliest terror incidents and its second-worst mass shooting behind the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.