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Bondi Beach shooting hero charged with domestic assault

Friday, 5 June 2026, 06:29 · 1 min read

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man celebrated across Australia for wrestling a gun from an attacker during the deadly Bondi Beach mass shooting in December 2025, has been charged with domestic violence common assault, as well as stalking and intimidation, after allegedly assaulting his father at a home in Bankstown (a suburb of western Sydney) on 9 March 2026. The 44-year-old, who was shot several times during his intervention at a Hanukkah event in which 15 people were killed in what authorities described as an antisemitic terrorist attack, denied the allegations, telling broadcaster ABC they were "not true at all." Ahmed, who was visited in hospital by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and was the beneficiary of a fundraiser that raised over A$2.5 million, is due to appear in Bankstown Local Court on 29 June.

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