The couple who were fatally wounded confronting the Bondi Beach gunmen on Sunday have been identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman.
They were filmed tackling one of the terrorists before apparently being shot dead.
The dashcam footage of the event, verified by Reuters, showed one shooter wrestling over a rifle with Boris in a lavender shirt and shorts, before both fall heavily to the ground behind a silver hatchback car.
Boris, who is seen with his wife, Sofia, gets up with the weapon as the footage moves on. A separate drone video shows the two lying motionless next to the vehicle beside a pedestrian bridge, where police later shot the gunmen.
“An elderly man by the roadside did not run away. Instead, he charged straight toward the danger, using all his strength trying to wrestle away the gun and fighting to the death,” said dashcam owner Jenny, who shared the footage with Reuters.
“I can see from my camera that the elderly man was ultimately shot and collapsed. That moment broke my heart,” she added.
Acts of heroism at Bondi Beach massacre
Reuven Morrison, 62, was also shot dead after trying to halt the bloodshed, his daughter Sheina Gutnick told American broadcaster CBS News in a report published on Monday.
“He had jumped the second the shooting started. He managed to throw bricks. He was screaming at the terrorist and protecting his community,” she said. “If there is one way for him to go on this earth, it would be fighting a terrorist.”
Morrison’s actions are visible in several videos posted on social media. After 43-year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, charged one of the gunmen from behind and disarmed him, a man is seen chasing the terrorist and hurling something at him. Morrison, who originally came from the USSR, was later shot and killed, according to Gutnick.
Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, earlier this week praised the actions of Australians who had “run toward danger in order to help others.”
“These Australians are heroes, and their bravery has saved lives,” he said at a press conference.