New Zealand shooter was gun club ‘fruit loop’ who ‘shot like he meant it’ with high-powered weapons leaving hunters shaken
THE shooter who opened fire at two Christchurch mosques was a gun club “fruit loop” who “shot like he meant it” with high-powered weapons, it has been claimed.
Brenton Tarrant, 28, was arrested after 49 people, including children, were fatally shot in the horrific attacks in New Zealand yesterday.
News.com.au today revealed how one New Zealand hunter was left “shaken” after spending a day with the Australian-born man.
But the hunting enthusiast claims nothing was done when he told police in the southern New Zealand city of Dunedin about Tarrant’s odd behaviour.
Dunedin hunter Tristan, 34, who had a polite nodding acquaintance with Tarrant over the last two years, said: “He shot like he meant it and with high powered [weapons]. You don’t need all that for hunting animals, which we do humanely.”
Tarrant also allegedly made verbal rants about young skateboarders and his right to carry firearms which left one animal hunter “shaken” after spending a day shooting with the accused.
In Facebook posts obtained by news.com.au, one hunter described a shooting session between Tarrant and his friends at a remote rifle club south of Dunedin as worrying.
The post, from November 2017, read: “He was complaining about skateboarding kids at the uni saying if they can carry their boards then he should be allowed to carry a gun.”
A Facebook respondent in the same forum replied: “I’d make a call to the arms officer the guy sounds like a fruit loop”.
The hunter updated the post on Saturday, saying: “I’d warned the police about the rifle club where he trained … un f***ing believable.”
He claims police told him “they are a strange bunch” but “they are harmless enough”.
He said: “My day with (Tarrant) had me shaken to say the least.”
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A three-year-old boy is one of the youngest people feared dead following the New Zealand mosque massacres.
Tarrant flashed a white power symbol as he appeared in Christchurch District Court today charged with murder.
The white supremacist shooter had “intended to continue with his attack” when he was tackled by brave cops, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The shooter had two semi-automatic weapons, two shotguns and a lever-action firearm to carry out the sick attack.
The country’s PM has since declared that “laws will change” following the country’s worst ever terror attack that was broadcast live on Facebook.
She confirmed that the evil murderer had a Category A gun licence which enabled him to legally obtain semi-automatic weapons.
The accused killer was remanded in custody without plea to the High Court in Christchurch on April 5. No application for bail was made.
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Harrowing video showed the gunman driving to a mosque, arming himself and then beginning the slaughter after declaring: “Let’s get this party started.”
The shooter had released a sick manifesto before the shooting – saying he was taking revenge for the “thousands of European lives lost to terror attacks”, adding: “I have read the writings of Dylan Roof and many others, but only really took true inspiration from Knight Justiciar Breivik.”
In the live-streamed footage, the man is seen taking automatic weapons from his boot, daubed in bizarre references to historic Muslim wars.
A version of this story originally appeared on News.com.au