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Peel Regional Police mourn retired dog Qaybre after life of crime solving
Qaybre retired from the force in 2021 at age 9

Author of the article:Jane Stevenson
Published Dec 05, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 1 minute read

Retired Peel Regional Police Services Dog (PSD) Qaybre, affectionately called “Q,” alongside his partner, canine handler Sgt. Jennifer Dagg.
Retired Peel Regional Police Services Dog (PSD) Qaybre, affectionately called “Q,” alongside his partner, canine handler Sgt. Jennifer Dagg. PRP
Q is gone but not forgotten by the police force and communities that he faithfully served for nearly a decade.


Peel Regional Police announced the “unexpected” death of retired Police Services Dog (PSD) Qaybre, affectionately called “Q,” at age 13.


The canine served on the Peel police force for almost nine years alongside his partner, canine handler Sgt. Jennifer Dagg.

His call sign was K9-3.

Retired Peel Regional Police Services Dog (PSD) Qaybre, affectionately called “Q,” alongside his partner, canine handler Sgt. Jennifer Dagg.
Retired Peel Regional Police Services Dog (PSD) Qaybre, affectionately called “Q,” alongside his partner, canine handler Sgt. Jennifer Dagg. PRP
‘Always had his partner’s back’
During his time on the job, Qaybre assisted with thousands of calls, including break-and-enters, robberies, and missing-persons cases. K9-3 played a vital role in hundreds of arrests, the service noted.

“He took handler protection to heart and always had his partner’s back,” Peel Regional Police said in a statement of his relationship with Dagg.

Qaybre also successfully located numerous pieces of evidence during article searches, which have aided in criminal convictions.


Shortly before his retirement, one of Qaybre’s last calls was a search for a missing elderly man and after extensive tracking, the man’s life was saved when he was located by the police dog.

Retired Peel Regional Police Services Dog (PSD) Qaybre, affectionately called “Q.”
Retired Peel Regional Police Services Dog (PSD) Qaybre, affectionately called “Q.” PRP
Lived a happy retirement
When Qaybre retired in July 2021, the dog went on to enjoy his favourite hobbies including swimming, playing ball, and the occasional steak dinner.

He lived with his handler and family, enjoying retirement until his death.

“Although Qaybre’s retirement was cut short, his exemplary service and the significant contributions he made to protecting the region leave behind a legacy that will be remembered with deep respect and heartfelt gratitude,” said Peel Regional Police.

“Rest easy, Q.”

jstevenson@postmedia.com

Peel Regional Police mourn retired dog Qaybre after life of crime solving

The canine served on the Peel police force for almost nine years alongside his partner, canine handler Sgt. Jennifer Dagg.

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Rob Reiner, wife Michele reportedly found dead in Los Angeles home
Victims had lacerations consistent with stab wounds, TMZ reports, after bodies found in Brentwood residence

Author of the article:Jordan Ercit
Published Dec 14, 2025 • Last updated 3 hours ago • 2 minute read

Actor Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer at a movie premiere.
Actor Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer arrive at the premiere party for "The Wolf of Wall Street" at the Roseland Ballroom on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, in New York. Photo by Evan Agostini /Invision/AP
Oscar-nominated director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele have been found dead in their Los Angeles-area home, according to reports.


Multiple outlets were reporting that a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman had been found dead in a Los Angeles-area home, which NBC Los Angeles had confirmed with “multiple law enforcement sources.”


TMZ reported that the deceased were Reiner and his wife Michele. Sources told TMZ the victims’ bodies had lacerations consistent with stab wounds.

Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the city’s Brentwood neighbourhood west of Beverly Hills at about 3:30 p.m. PT, NBC reported.

Large police presence at home owned by Reiner
The outlet said police officers were then dispatched to the home “within a few minutes” to respond to reports of an “ambulance death investigation,” which is used by the Los Angeles Police Department for when firefighters notify them about a death, NBC reported.


Detectives from the department’s robbery and homicide division have been assigned to the case, NBC reported, adding that “several other LAPD officials said they were aware of the investigation but could not share any information.”

The Associated Press, however, reported that detectives were investigating an “apparent homicide.”

Neighbours told NBC that Reiner and his wife Michele lived at the home. The outlet also tracked down property records indicating the Reiners were the owners.


Actor-director nominated for Oscar in 1993
Reiner, 78, was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 for A Few Good Men and has been behind the camera for numerous other Hollywood hits including This is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally… and Misery.


He is also known for dozens of acting roles including his breakout in All in the Family as well as Sleepless in Seattle and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Messages to Reiner’s representatives were not immediately returned Sunday night, The Associated Press reported.

The son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner had been married to photographer Michele Singer Reiner since 1989. The two met while he was directing When Harry Met Sally… and they have three children together.

Reiner was previously married to actor-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981. He adopted her daughter Tracy Reiner. Carl Reiner died in 2020 at age 98 and Marshall died in 2018.

— With files from The Associated Press.

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Father and son gunmen kill at least 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second, who was arrested, was in critical condition, authorities said

Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Kristen Gelineau, Charlotte Graham-mclay And Rod Mcguirk
Published Dec 14, 2025 • Last updated 10 hours ago • 5 minute read

Belongings of members of the Jewish community are seen at the scene of a shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 15, 2025. Two gunmen who shot and killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration on Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach were a 50-year-old father and his 24-year-old son, Australian police said. Photo by DAVID GRAY /AFP via Getty Images
SYDNEY (AP) — Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the nation. The shooters were father and son, authorities said.


The massacre at one of Australia’s most popular beaches followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the country over the past year, although the authorities didn’t suggest those and the shooting Sunday were connected. It was the deadliest shooting in almost three decades in a country with strict gun control laws.


One gunman, a 50-year-old man, was fatally shot by police. The other shooter, his 24-year-old son, was wounded and was being treated at a hospital, said Mal Lanyon, New South Wales police commissioner.

Police said one gunman was known to security services, but Lanyon said authorities had no indication of a planned attack.

Those killed were aged between 10- and 87-years-old, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns told reporters. At least 42 others were being treated at hospitals on Monday morning, several of them in a critical condition.


“What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of antisemitism, an act of terrorism on our shores in an iconic Australian location, Bondi Beach, that is associated with joy, associated with families gathering, associated with celebrations,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday.

“It is forever tarnished by what has occurred.”

The shooting targeted a Jewish celebration
The violence erupted at the end of a summer day when thousands had flocked to Bondi Beach, an icon of Australia’s cultural life. They included hundreds gathered for the Chanukah by the Sea event celebrating the start of the eight-day Hanukkah festival.

The festivities included face painting and a petting zoo. Then mayhem erupted.


Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish movement that runs outreach worldwide and sponsors events during major Jewish holidays, identified one of the dead as Rabbi Eli Schlanger, assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi and an organizer of the event.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of an Israeli citizen, but gave no further details. French President Emmanuel Macron announced a French citizen, identified as Dan Elkayam, was among those killed.

None of the victims have been publicly named by Australian authorities. The gunmen haven’t been officially named either.

But stories of the victims began to emerge in local news outlets on Monday. Larisa Kleytman told reporters outside St Vincent’s Hospital that her husband, Alexander Kleytman was among the dead, according to The Australian newspaper.


The couple were both Holocaust survivors.

Police said emergency services were called at about 6:45 p.m., responding to reports of shots being fired. Video by onlookers showed people in bathing suits running from the water as shots rang out.

Separate footage showed two men in black shirts firing with long guns from a footbridge leading to the beach. One dramatic clip broadcast on Australian television showed a man appearing to tackle and disarm one gunman, before pointing the man’s weapon at him, then setting the gun on the ground.

Minns called the man, identified by relatives to Australian media as fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, a “genuine hero.”

Police enforce a cordon after a mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by George Chan /Getty Images
Witnesses fled and hid as shots rang out
Arsen Ostrovsky, a lawyer attending the Hanukkah ceremony with his wife and daughters, was grazed in the head by a bullet. Ostrovsky said he moved from Israel to Australia two weeks ago to work for a Jewish advocacy group.


“What I saw today was pure evil, just an absolute bloodbath. Bodies strewn everywhere,” he told The Associated Press in an email from the hospital. “I never thought would be possible here in Australia.”

Lachlan Moran, 32, from Melbourne, told the AP he was waiting for his family when he heard shots.

“I sprinted as quickly as I could,” Moran said. He said he heard shooting off and on for about five minutes. “Everyone just dropped all their possessions and everything and were running and people were crying and it was just horrible.”

Antisemitic attacks have roiled Australia
Albanese vowed the violence would be met with “a moment of national unity where Australians across the board will embrace their fellow Australians of Jewish faith.” Some of his political opponents and Israel’s government accused him of not having done enough to prevent such a horror.


Australia, a country of 28 million people, is home to about 117,000 Jews, according to official figures. Antisemitic incidents, including assaults, vandalism, threats and intimidation, surged more than threefold in the country during the year after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel launched a war on Hamas in Gaza in response, the government’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal reported in July.

Last year, the country was rocked by antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. Synagogues and cars were torched, businesses and homes graffitied and Jews attacked in those cities, where 85% of the nation’s Jewish population lives.

Albanese in August blamed Iran for two of the attacks and cut diplomatic ties to Tehran.


Israel urged Australia’s government to address crimes targeting Jews. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he warned Australia’s leaders months ago about the dangers of failing to take action against antisemitism. He claimed Australia’s decision — in line with scores of other countries — to recognize a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire.”

“Your government did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia … and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today,” Netanyahu said.

Police will investigate what happened

Authorities were not looking for anyone else in connection with the massacre, said Lanyon. Police pledged a “thorough” investigation, he added.

Further inquiries are likely to be announced.


Two improvised explosive devices were found at the scene. Bomb disposal experts rendered them safe.

Lanyon described them as “rudimentary” devices that would have been detonated by a wick rather than a phone or electronically.

Shooting deaths in Australia are rare
Minns said there would “almost certainly” be gun law changes after the massacre. The 50-year-old gunman who was shot dead was found to have six firearms when law enforcement raided the property where he’d been staying, police said.

Questions about how he was able to acquire them gathered pace on Monday, in part because mass shootings in Australia are extremely rare. A 1996 massacre in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, where a lone gunman killed 35 people, prompted the government to drastically tighten gun laws, making it much more difficult to acquire firearms.


Significant mass shootings this century included two murder-suicides with death tolls of five people in 2014 and seven in 2018, in which gunmen killed their own families and themselves.

In 2022, six people were killed in a shootout between police and Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland state.

World leaders express shock and grief
After the massacre, messages flooded in from leaders around the world.

King Charles III said he and Queen Camilla were “appalled and saddened by the most dreadful antisemitic terrorist attack.” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on X he was horrified, and his “heart is with the Jewish community worldwide.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on X: “The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration. Antisemitism has no place in this world.”

Father and son gunmen kill at least 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

The massacre at one of Australia's most popular and iconic beaches followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the country.

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French farmers spray manure, keep up road blocks over cow 'mass slaughter'
Many farmers in southern and southwest France have been incensed by the use of police force and the government's mass slaughter policy to contain the spread of nodular dermatitis, widely known as lumpy skin disease

Author of the article:AFP
AFP
by Karine Albertazzi with Germain Michelet in Carbonne
Published Dec 14, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read

French farmers are unhappy with the government's management of an outbreak of lumpy skin disease.
French farmers are unhappy with the government's management of an outbreak of lumpy skin disease. Photo by Idriss Bigou-Gilles /AFP
Bordeaux (AFP) — Farmers sprayed manure on government offices and kept up roadblocks in southern France on Sunday in protest against a mass cull of cows as officials urged Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to urgently intervene.


Many farmers in southern and southwest France have been incensed by the use of police force and the government’s mass slaughter policy to contain the spread of nodular dermatitis, widely known as lumpy skin disease.


Farmers have blocked roads after veterinarians on Friday slaughtered a herd of more than 200 cows in a village near the Spanish border after discovering a single case of the disease. Police had used tear gas to clear away angry demonstrators protecting the cattle.

“New blockades are underway,” Bertrand Venteau, head of hard-line farmers’ union Coordination Rurale, told AFP. “It’s continuing and spreading.”

A tractor sprays liquid manure on the facade of a local government building during a protest in the southern French town of Millau. (Idriss Bigou-Gilles/AFP)
A tractor sprays liquid manure on the facade of a local government building during a protest in the southern French town of Millau. (Idriss Bigou-Gilles/AFP) Photo by Idriss Bigou-Gilles /AFP
While the leading FNSEA farming union supports the government’s strategy, Coordination Rurale and another union have called for protests, demanding a widespread vaccination campaign instead.


Critics say the current state approach is not effective, often destroying a farmer’s lifetime of work.

– ‘We are at war’ –

On the A64 motorway, which has been blocked since Friday evening by dozens of tractors, farmers set up Christmas trees.

“We’re here to spend the holidays,” said Cedric Baron, a cattle farmer.

A farmer drives a tractor during a protest in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. (Gaizka IROZ/AFP)
A farmer drives a tractor during a protest in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. (Gaizka IROZ/AFP) Photo by Gaizka IROZ /AFP
Around 50 farmers blocked the N88 highway near the southern town of Albi.

“We are at war,” said another protester, Cedric Nespoulos. “As long as the government does not give up on mass slaughter, we will be here.”

In the town of Millau, farmers sprayed liquid manure on the facade of a local government building as tractors and trucks dumped bales of hay, tires, and garbage in front of it.

Theo Alary, a sheep farmer, said the mass slaughter strategy was not working as the disease was spreading.


“Culling animals just like that, with a snap of the fingers, riot police everywhere, we’re kicking everyone out and killing everyone,” he said. “What is this?”

Carole Delga, head of the southern region of Occitanie, which has emerged as the epicentre of the outbreak, urged Lecornu to intervene to avoid an escalation.

“With each passing hour, indignation and anger are rising inexorably in the face of people’s despair,” she said in an open letter to the prime minister.

“It is time for you to intervene to ensure, as soon as possible, a frank and sincere dialogue with the farmers,” she added.

French veterinarians slaughtered a herd of cows due to an outbreak of lumpy skin disease after police dispersed angry farmers trying to protect them. (ROMAIN PERROCHEAU/AFP)
French veterinarians slaughtered a herd of cows due to an outbreak of lumpy skin disease after police dispersed angry farmers trying to protect them. (ROMAIN PERROCHEAU/AFP) Photo by ROMAIN PERROCHEAU /AFP
Delga said many French people were “shocked” by the images of animals being slaughtered.

“They do not understand the massive use of force by the police,” she said, referring to the culling of the entire herd in the village of Les Bordes-sur-Arize.


“We must do everything we can to avoid escalation and confrontation.”

– ‘Tragedy’ –
Government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon said the government opted for “the most effective health protocol” and added that law enforcement would intervene again if need be.

“Three thousand animals have been slaughtered since the outbreak of this disease, and we know that this is a tragedy,” she said.

“However, this represents 0.02 percent of the French livestock population and allows us to protect the rest.”

Lumpy skin disease, which cannot be passed to humans but can be fatal for cattle, first appeared in France in June.

A farmer, carrying a Christmas tree in his tractor, takes part in the blockade of the A64 motorway to protest the culling of cows. (Germain MICHELET/AFP)
A farmer, carrying a Christmas tree in his tractor, takes part in the blockade of the A64 motorway to protest the culling of cows. (Germain MICHELET/AFP) Photo by Germain MICHELET /AFP
The official strategy to stamp out what the authorities describe as a very contagious disease has been to slaughter all animals in affected herds, as well as the “emergency vaccination” of all cattle within a 50-kilometre (30-mile) radius.

Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said on Saturday the government planned to vaccinate one million head of cattle in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions.

She was set to travel to Occitanie on Monday to oversee the start of the vaccination campaign in the region.

French farmers spray manure, keep up road blocks over cow 'mass slaughter'

Police had used tear gas to clear away angry demonstrators protecting the cattle.

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Father and son gunmen kill at least 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second, who was arrested, was in critical condition, authorities said

Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Kristen Gelineau, Charlotte Graham-mclay And Rod Mcguirk
Published Dec 14, 2025 • Last updated 10 hours ago • 5 minute read

Belongings of members of the Jewish community are seen at the scene of a shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 15, 2025. Two gunmen who shot and killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration on Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach were a 50-year-old father and his 24-year-old son, Australian police said. Photo by DAVID GRAY /AFP via Getty Images
SYDNEY (AP) — Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the nation. The shooters were father and son, authorities said.


The massacre at one of Australia’s most popular beaches followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the country over the past year, although the authorities didn’t suggest those and the shooting Sunday were connected. It was the deadliest shooting in almost three decades in a country with strict gun control laws.


One gunman, a 50-year-old man, was fatally shot by police. The other shooter, his 24-year-old son, was wounded and was being treated at a hospital, said Mal Lanyon, New South Wales police commissioner.

Police said one gunman was known to security services, but Lanyon said authorities had no indication of a planned attack.

Those killed were aged between 10- and 87-years-old, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns told reporters. At least 42 others were being treated at hospitals on Monday morning, several of them in a critical condition.


“What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of antisemitism, an act of terrorism on our shores in an iconic Australian location, Bondi Beach, that is associated with joy, associated with families gathering, associated with celebrations,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday.

“It is forever tarnished by what has occurred.”

The shooting targeted a Jewish celebration
The violence erupted at the end of a summer day when thousands had flocked to Bondi Beach, an icon of Australia’s cultural life. They included hundreds gathered for the Chanukah by the Sea event celebrating the start of the eight-day Hanukkah festival.

The festivities included face painting and a petting zoo. Then mayhem erupted.


Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish movement that runs outreach worldwide and sponsors events during major Jewish holidays, identified one of the dead as Rabbi Eli Schlanger, assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi and an organizer of the event.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of an Israeli citizen, but gave no further details. French President Emmanuel Macron announced a French citizen, identified as Dan Elkayam, was among those killed.

None of the victims have been publicly named by Australian authorities. The gunmen haven’t been officially named either.

But stories of the victims began to emerge in local news outlets on Monday. Larisa Kleytman told reporters outside St Vincent’s Hospital that her husband, Alexander Kleytman was among the dead, according to The Australian newspaper.


The couple were both Holocaust survivors.

Police said emergency services were called at about 6:45 p.m., responding to reports of shots being fired. Video by onlookers showed people in bathing suits running from the water as shots rang out.

Separate footage showed two men in black shirts firing with long guns from a footbridge leading to the beach. One dramatic clip broadcast on Australian television showed a man appearing to tackle and disarm one gunman, before pointing the man’s weapon at him, then setting the gun on the ground.

Minns called the man, identified by relatives to Australian media as fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, a “genuine hero.”

Police enforce a cordon after a mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by George Chan /Getty Images
Witnesses fled and hid as shots rang out
Arsen Ostrovsky, a lawyer attending the Hanukkah ceremony with his wife and daughters, was grazed in the head by a bullet. Ostrovsky said he moved from Israel to Australia two weeks ago to work for a Jewish advocacy group.


“What I saw today was pure evil, just an absolute bloodbath. Bodies strewn everywhere,” he told The Associated Press in an email from the hospital. “I never thought would be possible here in Australia.”

Lachlan Moran, 32, from Melbourne, told the AP he was waiting for his family when he heard shots.

“I sprinted as quickly as I could,” Moran said. He said he heard shooting off and on for about five minutes. “Everyone just dropped all their possessions and everything and were running and people were crying and it was just horrible.”

Antisemitic attacks have roiled Australia
Albanese vowed the violence would be met with “a moment of national unity where Australians across the board will embrace their fellow Australians of Jewish faith.” Some of his political opponents and Israel’s government accused him of not having done enough to prevent such a horror.


Australia, a country of 28 million people, is home to about 117,000 Jews, according to official figures. Antisemitic incidents, including assaults, vandalism, threats and intimidation, surged more than threefold in the country during the year after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel launched a war on Hamas in Gaza in response, the government’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal reported in July.

Last year, the country was rocked by antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. Synagogues and cars were torched, businesses and homes graffitied and Jews attacked in those cities, where 85% of the nation’s Jewish population lives.

Albanese in August blamed Iran for two of the attacks and cut diplomatic ties to Tehran.


Israel urged Australia’s government to address crimes targeting Jews. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he warned Australia’s leaders months ago about the dangers of failing to take action against antisemitism. He claimed Australia’s decision — in line with scores of other countries — to recognize a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire.”

“Your government did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia … and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today,” Netanyahu said.

Police will investigate what happened

Authorities were not looking for anyone else in connection with the massacre, said Lanyon. Police pledged a “thorough” investigation, he added.

Further inquiries are likely to be announced.


Two improvised explosive devices were found at the scene. Bomb disposal experts rendered them safe.

Lanyon described them as “rudimentary” devices that would have been detonated by a wick rather than a phone or electronically.

Shooting deaths in Australia are rare
Minns said there would “almost certainly” be gun law changes after the massacre. The 50-year-old gunman who was shot dead was found to have six firearms when law enforcement raided the property where he’d been staying, police said.

Questions about how he was able to acquire them gathered pace on Monday, in part because mass shootings in Australia are extremely rare. A 1996 massacre in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, where a lone gunman killed 35 people, prompted the government to drastically tighten gun laws, making it much more difficult to acquire firearms.


Significant mass shootings this century included two murder-suicides with death tolls of five people in 2014 and seven in 2018, in which gunmen killed their own families and themselves.

In 2022, six people were killed in a shootout between police and Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland state.

World leaders express shock and grief
After the massacre, messages flooded in from leaders around the world.

King Charles III said he and Queen Camilla were “appalled and saddened by the most dreadful antisemitic terrorist attack.” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on X he was horrified, and his “heart is with the Jewish community worldwide.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on X: “The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration. Antisemitism has no place in this world.”

Father and son gunmen kill at least 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

The massacre at one of Australia's most popular and iconic beaches followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the country.

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why didnt the good samaritan kill the terrorist?