Bondi Beach Shooting: Second bystander seen in al-Ahmed’s video threw bricks at gunman before being shot dead

In the video, Morrison is seen rushing to the spot and flinging his arm at the gunman.

Another video emerged showing businessman Reuven Morrison confronting one of the Jihadists in Sydney to draw attention away from others.

He saved lives by doing this and in the process was murdered.

May his memory be for a blessing https://t.co/ED8bs9s2Xm pic.twitter.com/UKFjkuL859

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Threw bricks at the gunman

According to Morrison’s daughter, Sheina Gutnick, her father threw bricks at the gunman.

Gutnick told CBS News that her father had “jumped up the second the shooting started”.

“He managed to throw bricks, he was screaming … and protecting his community, he was shot dead,” Gutnick said.

“I believe after Ahmed managed to get the gun off the terrorist, my father had then gone to try and unjam the gun, to try and attempt shooting. He was screaming at the terrorist,” she said.

Came to Australia as a refugee

Morrison, who was born in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, when it was part of the USSR, came to Australia five decades ago at the age of 14, as a refugee fleeing antisemitic persecution. According to Gutnick, Bondi Beach was special for the family as her parents met there for the first time.

Gutnick said her father died fighting.

“If there was one way for him to go on this earth, it would be fighting a terrorist. There was no other way he would be taken from us. He went down fighting, protecting the people he loved most,” she said.

Gutnick told The Sydney Morning Herald that she was at a Hanukkah celebration in Melbourne when she heard of the shooting.

When she tried calling her father, the call went unanswered. But her mother, Leah, picked up at once, screaming that Reuven was “up and running”.

“Dad was running at the shooters,” Gutnick recalls. “Then Mum said he was down. He was down, and they were laying a sheet over him. I fell to the floor.”