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More names released as stories of heroism emerge from Bondi Beach terror attack

At least three victims confronted the gunmen; a 14-year-old shielded younger children.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

More names among the 15 victims of Sunday’s Bondi Beach terror attack have been released as accounts of heroism by both survivors and those killed continued to emerge.

Boris Tetleroyd attended the outdoor Chanukah by the Sea event with his son. Tetleroyd was killed his son was seriously wounded and remains hospitalized.

Edith Brutman, the vice-president of the New South Wales branch of B’nai B’rith, came to the event with another victim, Tibor Weitzen, his wife and grandchildren.

Weitzen, 78, managed to shield his wife from the gunfire of Sajid and Naveed Akram — the father-and-son terrorists — but he and Brutman were fatally shot.

Four children were among the victims, but the only one publicly identified so far is the youngest, 10-year-old Matilda Britvan.

At least three of the victims attempted to stop the terrorists.

Boris, 69, and his wife, Sofia Gorman, 61, confronted the Akrams after seeing them exit their car carrying rifles.

Video footage captured by a passing motorist shows Boris seizing a weapon from Sajid Akram and both of them falling to the ground.

Sajid then appears to get up, draw a second weapon and fatally shoot both Gormans, making them the first victims of the attack.

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Another video shows businessman Reuven Morrison, 62, throwing a brick at Sajid after Ahmed al-Ahmed, a shop owner who had been walking along the beach, tackled the gunman and disarmed him.

Naveed Akram then shot Morrison dead and wounded al-Ahmed with several bullets.

Al-Ahmed is recovering in hospital after surgery and has been widely hailed as a hero. A crowdfunding campaign raised $1.3 million in a single day to help support him, in gratitude for his actions.

There were young people, too, among the survivors, who acted with extraordinary courage.

According to a United Hatzalah Psychotrauma and Crisis team who visited her in the hospital, 14-year-old Chaya saw two young children without their parents as chaos erupted when the shooting began and flung herself on top of them.

She “describe[ed] her instinctive need to protect the children in those terrifying moments,” the organization said. “It was only afterward that the full weight of what she had done became clear.”

The children were unharmed but Chaya was shot in the leg. Their mother was killed in the attack, according to Hatzalah.

Twenty-one people still remain hospitalized in medical centers across Sydney, with one of them in critical condition and several in serious condition.