Tarrant is accused of killing 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Prince Street in Grafton, Australia. Brenton Harrison Tarrant grew up in Grafton, where he reportedly attended Grafton High School and worked at a local gym. By Brett Cole March 17 at 10:48 AM GRAFTON, Australia — On the road into this small city, a sign is evidence of a community in shock: “He does not represent us,” it says, referring to the alleged killer few here will even name.
In Australian media, a picture began to emerge of a young man who grew up with computers as his best friends, lost in a world of violent video games, uncomfortable around girls.His father, Rodney Tarrant, died at the age of 49 while suffering mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.“The individual who carried out the attacks does not represent us, nor does he represent the values and beliefs of our wider community,” Kingsley said.
“There is no tension between new Australians and long-term residents of the Clarence Valley,” he said. “This is a quiet place, a great place to raise a family. We are a welcoming and inclusive community.” This frame from the video that was live-streamed Friday shows a gunman, who used the name Brenton Harrison Tarrant on social media, in a car before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. She said Tarrant may have been more fundamentally changed by a trip to Europe at a time when attacks by Islamist extremists were on the rise. But even when he returned to Grafton a year ago for his sister’s birthday, she noticed nothing out of the ordinary, 9News reported.
Tarrant’s uncle, Terry Fitzgerald, apologized to the families of the dead and injured in New Zealand. “We can’t think nothing else, just want to go home and hide,” he told 9News.
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