From NBC News: A father and son who lived in a quiet Sydney suburb — one a licensed gun owner, the other previously investigated for potential extremist associations — are suspected of turning an oceanside Hanukkah celebration into a killing ground.
With 15 people confirmed dead, Sunday’s attack on the famous Bondi Beach is Australia’s deadliest shooting in decades. Officials said the shooters targeted the Jewish community and were “motivated by Islamic State ideology” when they unleashed a volley of bullets from a bridge at the gathered crowds.
Three senior law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Australia told NBC News that investigators had tentatively identified one of the suspects as Naveed Akram. Lanyon identified the older suspect, the father, as Sajid Akram.
According to reports, the men had traveled to the Philippines prior to the assault. ISIS militants are known to operate there. Investigators also found two homemade ISIS flags in the cars belonging to the younger, 24-year-old suspect, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said.
“Early indications point to a terrorism attack inspired by the Islamic State,” Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett told reporters Tuesday.
Australian PM Anthony Albanese
There is evidence that this was inspired by a terrorist organization by ISIS.
Now some of the evidence which is being procured, including the presence of Islamic state flags in the vehicle that has been seized are part of that radical perversion… pic.twitter.com/koXRJqCpei
— Shalinder Wangu (@Wangu_News18) December 16, 2025
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