The moment hero cop guns down Bondi Beach terrorist

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Footage has emerged of the moment hero police officer Cesar Barraza guns down Bondi Beach terrorist Sajid Akram.

Akram, 50, was shot dead minutes after he and his son Naveed, 24, began shooting at members of the Jewish community gathered at a Hanukkah event on Sunday night.

The footage, circulated on social media, shows Berraza, a Bondi-based detective, taking cover against a tree before firing his service weapon towards the footbridge from which the father and son had launched their attack. The detective, wearing a shirt and tie in the vision, had been working when the shooting started.

Other footage of the moment filmed from several locations and reviewed by this masthead appears to show Sajid collapse after the shot is fired. Berraza is believed to have been about 40 metres from the footbridge when he fired the fatal shot.

The officer captured in the video was one of hundreds of police who rushed to the beach amid the chaos of the shooting.

NSW Police identified Berraza as the man who fatally shot Sajid on Wednesday morning.

A critical incident investigation is under way to analyse the police response and the shooting of the father and son. Detectives involved in the investigation will this week review swaths of footage captured on body worn cameras and interview the officers who engaged in and witnessed the shootout with the pair, while a ballistics review is likely to determine which of the officers’ weapons fired the fatal shot.

Naveed was shot moments after his father and awoke from a coma in hospital on Tuesday afternoon. He is facing multiple charges over the massacre. Another officer, believed to have shot Naveed, is also yet to be formally identified.

Two police officers, Constable Scott Dyson and Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert, were seriously injured in the shooting and remain in hospital.

Images from Bondi on Sunday night show the windscreen of a police car riddled with bullet holes.

Dyson, a talented water polo player who has represented Australia, has worked in the eastern suburbs command for 18 months, police said. He was shot in the shoulder and abdomen with what is believed to have been the high-powered rifle being fired by Naveed.

Hibbert was one of several officers already at the beach when the shooting started.

He and his partner had got out of their car and were walking near Archer Park when the Akrams started shooting at them.

Hibbert was dragging members of the public to safety when he suffered a gunshot wound. Shrapnel damaged the nerves behind his eye, which he could lose.

An off-duty police officer who was at the beach on Sunday rushed to injured victims to render first aid after sheltering his family.

In a statement on Monday night, the families of the injured officers expressed their “heartfelt gratitude to all first responders who acted with courage, in particular the police officers and paramedics who responded”.

They thanked hospital staff, and offered their thoughts to the families and friends of victims injured and killed in the shooting.

Acting NSW Police Association president Ian Allwood described Dyson and other responding officers as “heroes”.

He said police officers drove ambulance vehicles to hospitals while paramedics treated injured patients in the back.

Allwood said Dyson, 25, who remains in intensive care and is expected to undergo further surgeries, was facing a “complex and long” recovery.

“He’s just gone to work and something awful has happened to him,” Allwood said after visiting Dyson at St Vincent’s Hospital on Tuesday.

Dyson, who has been a police officer for just over a year, was “very well respected” by his peers and local community. Dyson’s pregnant wife is a police officer based in regional NSW.

Fifteen people, not including Sajid, were killed in the shooting, which NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon on Sunday night declared a terrorist attack. Dozens more were injured and taken to hospital, where they remain, for treatment. The oldest victim was 87.

The youngest victim, 10-year-old Matilda, whose surname has been withheld at the request of her family, had been playing with her six-year-old sister at a petting zoo moments before the shooting.

“I will never see her smile again, only in my photographs,” Matilda’s aunt, Lina, told this masthead.

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• The victims: 10-year-old Matilda is the youngest victim. What we know about the Bondi terror victims so far

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