Brenton Tarrant
Two consecutive
took place in
,
, on 15 March 2019. They were committed by a single perpetrator during
, first at the
in Riccarton, at 1:40 p.m. and almost immediately afterwards at the
at 1:52 p.m. Altogether, 51 people were killed and 89 others were injured; including 40 by gunfire.
The perpetrator, Brenton Tarrant, was arrested after his vehicle was rammed by a police
as he was driving to a third mosque in
. He
the first shooting on
, marking the first successfully live-streamed
terror attack, and had published a
online before the attack.