The hero hid behind a silver car and crept in direction of the obvious gunman earlier than leaping in direction of him and placing him in a headlock.
The unknown man wrestled with the gunman till he launched the weapon.
The nice Samaritan then turned the weapon on the gunman, holding it at him as the person stumbled backwards, holding up his hand as he scrambled away.
The heroic man didn’t hearth the gun however signalled for help.
No less than 12 individuals have been killed and a dozen extra injured after the 2 gunmen opened hearth on the favored seashore, with imaginative and prescient from the scene displaying them taking pictures from a footbridge on the southern finish of Campbell Parade shortly earlier than 7pm (AEDT).
Police have confirmed greater than 20 individuals have been shot.
One of many shooters was killed and the opposite was critically injured and in police custody.
Police cautioned that the bridge the shooters used could have had explosives hidden on. Folks have been warned to maintain away because it was searched.
It is understood that younger kids are among the many greater than a dozen individuals injured.
“I noticed kids, I noticed an aged lady,” 9News reporter Damien Ryan stated from the scene.
