{"id":45161,"date":"2025-12-14T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=45161"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:59:44","slug":"the-brave-father-of-two-prevented-further-lives-being-lost-despite-being-injured-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=45161","title":{"rendered":"The brave father-of-two prevented further lives being lost despite being injured himself."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1804353\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, owns a fruit shop in Sutherland and had no experience with firearms when he stepped into the line of fire.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn\u2019t stop him from leaping into action in what\u2019s now being called an act of incredible bravery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1505412\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ahmed was shot twice during the confrontation and is currently recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s in hospital and we don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s going on inside,\u201d his cousin Mustafa told 7News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do hope he will be fine. He\u2019s a hero 100 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1804354\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Caught in the chaos, Ahmed made a split-second decision<br \/>\nFootage captured the moment Ahmed, dressed in a white shirt, crouched behind a car in a Bondi Beach carpark just metres from one of the shooters.<\/p>\n<p>As gunfire erupted, he waited for the right moment, then sprinted through the parked cars and grabbed the shooter in a headlock from behind.<\/p>\n<p>The struggle lasted around five seconds before Ahmed successfully wrestled the gun away. The gunman stumbled back, and Ahmed pointed the weapon at him as he backed off toward a nearby bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Video later showed Ahmed sitting on the ground with a visible leg injury while bystanders rushed to help. One man brought over a towel to stem the bleeding, and responders were seen supporting him from behind.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being wounded, Ahmed managed to place the gun safely against a tree.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1505415\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, owns a fruit shop in Sutherland and had no experience with firearms when he stepped into the line of fire. But that didn\u2019t stop him from &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45164,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161\/revisions\/45164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}