Dramatic new footage has emerged showing an elderly couple who were killed in theBondi Beach shootingattempt to stop and disarm one of the gunmen.
The dashcam video, which was shared on social media Tuesday and verified by NBC News, shows a man and a woman wrestling with and ultimately disarming a man on the side of the road.
The couple were identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman, both in their sixties, by their family.
It's the latest act of heroism to emerge fromthe attack, in which afather and sonkilled15 peopleat a Hanukkah event at the famous site inSydney, Australia. Praise has poured in forAhmed al Ahmed, a bystander seen disarming a gunman in separate video, who underwent surgery for gunshot wounds and was visited Tuesday by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
In the video, which was first posted on Chinese social media platform RedNote, an older man wearing shorts and a lavender shirt can be seen wrestling with a gun-wielding man in white pants and a black t-shirt behind a silver car with an open door. He manages to take the long-barreled weapon as they both fall to the ground.
As the footage moves on, an older woman can be seen running around the car, which has a black flag with white writing draped across its windscreen.
Two homemade ISIS flags were found in the cars belonging to the younger, 24-year-old suspect, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said.
The video then shows the man in lavender getting up while holding the weapon and taking a few steps toward the man he had wrestled with. As the footage ends, the older man appears to fall to the ground.
"My dashcam accidentally captured this shocking scene," the user who posted the video, and told NBC News she wanted to go by the name Jenny, said in the caption to her post.
"One terrorist on the bridge fired the first shot, then the second, then the third. Meanwhile, the other terrorist had just gotten out of the car when an elderly man by the roadside didn't run away. Instead, he charged toward danger, fought desperately to grab the gun, and held on tightly! Watching through the lens as the old man was finally shot and fell to the ground — my heart was torn apart," she said.
Separate drone footage showed the couple subsequently lying motionless beside each other near to the pedestrian bridge where the suspects were shot by police.
"Boris and Sofia were longtime Bondi locals who loved their community and the life they had built there," the family said in a statement to ABC Australia, the national broadcaster.
The family said that the couple's selfless act reflected "exactly who they were: people who instinctively chose to help, even at great personal risk."
"While nothing can lessen the pain of this loss, we feel immense pride in their courage and humanity," it added.
The Gurmans' story emerged as Al Ahmed, who was seen on video rushing a shooter from behind and wrestling the weapon away, was recovering at Saint George Hospital in Sydney.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed the 43-year-old shop owner for his heroism as he visited the hospital Tuesday. "Your heart is very strong," Albanese said as he shook al Ahmed's hand at his bedside.
"He is a true Australian hero," Albanese said later, adding: "We are a brave country. Ahmed al Ahmed represents the best of our country. We will not allow this country to be divided."
Al-Ahmed's father, Mohammad Fatih Al-Ahmed, told NBC News the family "know what it means to lose loved ones."
"We have seen all kinds of crime and injustice in Syria, so Ahmed had to intervene when he saw the right opportunity," his father said in an interview.
The father, who said his family left Syria two months ago and obtained three-month visitor visas for Australia, added that he felt very proud after learning that President Donald Trump had called his son a "very brave person" who "saved a lot of lives."
An online fundraising campaign to support the family, organized through GoFundMe, has now raised more than $1.3 million.
And flowers were laid on Tuesday in front of al Ahmed's tobacco shop in Sutherland, a Sydney suburb, according to the Reuters news agency.
Other tales of heroism were emerging, too.
Reuven Morrison, 62, was killed after physically confronting one of the gunmen, according to his daughter.
"He managed to throw bricks at the terrorist," Morrison's daughter, Sheina Gutnick,told CBS News.
"I believe after Ahmed managed to get the gun off the terrorist, my father had then gone to try and unjam the gun, to try and attempt shooting. He was screaming at the terrorist," she said.
"There was no other way he would be taken from us. He went down fighting, protecting the people he loved most," Gutnick added.
