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Before we begin, a warning. Today's episode contains detailed descriptions
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of mass violence, including the deaths of children. We're covering
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one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. If
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you need to skip this one, I understand the events
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we're discussing are horrific. We name the perpetrator only when
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historically necessary. Our focus is on the victims, the survivors,
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and what happened next. This is difficult content. Listener discretion
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is strongly advised. Calarugashark Media, Good morning, I'm read Carter, Saturday,
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January thirty first, twenty twenty six. Last weekend, Australians celebrated
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Australia Day, flags flying families gathering, a nation honoring its history.
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But every nation has darker chapters, moments that test its character,
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tragedies that force hard questions about who a country really is.
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Last weekend we explored one of those chapters. Azaria Chamberlain,
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a mother wrongfully convicted junk science thirty two years to
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get the truth on a death certificate. A story about
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justice failing then slowly correcting itself. This weekend we cover
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Port Arthur, a very different kind of Australian tragedy. One
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that didn't expose the justice system's failures, one that exposed
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the nation's gun laws, and one that showed what a
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country can do when it decides thirty five dead bodies
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are enough. April twenty eighth, nineteen ninety six a Sunday,
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beautiful autumn day in Tasmania, the island state off Australia's
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southeast coast. Clear skies, mild temperatures, perfect weather for tourists.
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Port Arthur is a historic site on the Tasman Peninsula,
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about an hour's drive from Hobart. In the nineteenth century,
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it was one of the harshest convict prisons in the
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British Empire. Thousands of transported prisoners suffered and died there.
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The ruins remain preserved, a memorial to a brutal past,
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and now a popular tourist destination. On that Sunday, about
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five hundred visitors were exploring the site, families, couples, tour
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groups from around the world, Australians enjoying a day out.
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Around sixty people were having lunch in the Broad Arrow Cafe,
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a small restaurant at the site. Stone Walls, Wooden Beams
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gift shop attached the smell of coffee and grilled food.
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At approximately one thirty PM, a twenty eight year old
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man with long blonde hair finished his meal on the
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outdoor deck. He'd been eating alone, smiling at passers by
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making small talk about the weather. Then he stood up,
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walked inside, reached into his sports bag and pulled out
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a Colt R fifteen semi automatic rifle. In the next
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ninety seconds, twenty people would be dead. By the time
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it ended eighteen hours later, thirty five people would be murdered,
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twenty three more wounded, children among them, families destroyed. It
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remains the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in
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modern Australian history. I'm reed, Carter. This is Celebrity Trials Today,
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Part one. April twenty eighth, nineteen ninety six. What happened
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at Port Arthur, The victims, the horror, the eighteen hour
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standoff Tomorrow Part two. How Australia responded twelve days that
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changed the nation's gun laws forever. The lesson America refuses
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to learn this is Port Arthur. Before we get to
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April twenty eighth, you need to understand something about Australia's
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gun laws in nineteen ninety six, so there weren't any.
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Not really, not in any unified sense. Australia has six
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states and two territories. Each had its own firearms regulations,
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some stricter than others, but there was no national standard,
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no consistent approach. Tasmania, the island state where Port Arthur
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is located, had the weakest gun laws in the country.
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In nineteen ninety one, Tasmania passed a law requiring a
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license to purchase firearms. Sounds reasonable, but enforcement was limited.
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You could buy guns with cash, dealers didn't always check
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if buyers actually had licenses. The law existed on paper,
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but not in practice. Throughout the early nineteen nineties, police
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ministers from across Australia tried to create a national firearms
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agreement uniform laws, consistent standards, registration, licensing, restrictions on the
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most dangerous weapons. Tasmania blocked it. Every time a meeting
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of police ministers in Launceston, Tasmania, they presented a comprehensive
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redesign of national gun laws. Tasmania rejected it. Here's where
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it gets eerie. Nine years before Port Arthur, the premiere
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of New South Wales, Barry Unsworth was frustrated two mass
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shootings had just occurred in Melbourne. He wanted national gun reform.
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Tasmania was resisting. Unsworth made a prediction, a warning, a
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prophecy that would prove horrifyingly accurate. It will take a
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massacre in Tasmania before we get gun reform in Australia.
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Nine years later, almost to the month, he was proven right.
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The gunman who would commit that massacre was already stockpiling weapons,
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using the inheritance from a dead friend, buying rifles and
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ammunition with cash, no license required, no questions asked. Tasmania's
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weak gun laws made it easy, made it possible, made
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it inevitable. April twenty eighth, nineteen ninety six, the massacre
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Tasmania's resistance had been building toward. I'm going to give
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you some background on the perpetrator, not to humanize him,
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not to explain or excuse what he did, but because
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understanding how warning signs were missed is part of understanding
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how this happened. Martin Bryant was born May seventh, nineteen
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sixty seven, in Hobart, Tasmania, the first child of Maurice
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and Carlene Bryant. From early childhood, something was wrong. His
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mother later described him as annoying and different. He frequently
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broke his toys, tormented other children, showed cruelty to animals.
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A psychiatrist who examined him as a child told the
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family he would never be capable of holding down a job.
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His IQ was tested around sixty six. Intellectually disabled, unable
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to function normally in society. Neighbors remembered disturbing incidents. One
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recalled the day a young Bryant shot every parrot in
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the neighborhood. Dead animals appeared on the Bryant property with
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no natural explanation. He left school early, couldn't hold employed,
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eventually received a disability pension based on psychiatric evaluation. In
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nineteen eighty seven, when Bryant was twenty, he began working
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as a handyman for a woman named Helen Harvey. She
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was a lottery heiress, wealthy, lonely, living alone in a
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large house. Bryant and Harvey became close an unusual friendship.
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She was in her fifties, he was barely an adult
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with the mind of a child. They traveled together, spent
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time together. She became, in some ways, the only real
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friend he ever had. October nineteen ninety two, Helen Harvey
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died in a car accident. Bryant was a passenger. He
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survived with injuries she did not. Some have speculated that
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Bryant caused the crash. He was known to grab the
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steering wheel while others were driving. He denied any wrongdoing.
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No charges were ever filed. But here's what matters. Helen
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Harvey left her entire estate to Martin Bryant, approximately five
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hundhundred and seventy thousand dollars in property and assets, a
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fortune for a young man who had never worked a
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real job in his life. Bryant's father, Maurice, had struggled
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with depression, failed business ventures. In nineteen ninety three, he
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committed suicide. After his father's death, Bryant began traveling extensively,
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visited countries around the world, and began stockpiling guns. He
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bought a cult Ar fifteen semi automatic rifle, a point
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three zero eight SLR semi automatic rifle, a Dawu twelve
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gage semi automatic shotgun, ammunition lots of it. He had
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no firearms license didn't need one. Tasmania's weak laws meant
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dealers could sell to anyone with cash. The weapons that
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would kill thirty five people were purchased legally from licensed
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dealers by a man who was intellectually disabled, socially isolated,
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recently bereaved, and showing clear signs of deterioration. Nobody stopped him.
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Nobody could stop him. The system wasn't designed to stop him.
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By April nineteen ninety six, Bryant had the means, the weapons,
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the ammunition. What he didn't have and never provided, was
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a reason. He has never explained why he did it,
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never given a motive that made sense. In interviews after
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his arrest, he offered confused, contradictory accounts, something about his
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father's failed attempt to buy a property near Port Arthur
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years earlier, but nothing coherent, Nothing that explains why he
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decided to murder thirty five strangers. Some people are just evil.
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The morning of April twenty eighth, nineteen ninety six, Bryant
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drove from his home in Newtown, a suburb of Hobart,
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toward the Tasman Peninsula. His first stop the Seascape Cottage,
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a bed and breakfast near Port Arthur, owned by David
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Martin sixty three and his wife Noah Lene Martin sixty six.
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Bryant knew the Martins, or rather his father had known them.
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Years earlier, Maurice Bryant had tried to buy the Seascape property.
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The deal fell through, the Martins bought it instead. Some
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have theorized this was Bryant's motive, revenge for his father's disappointment.
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But Maurice Bryant had been dead for three years, and
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the Martins had done nothing wrong. They'd simply purchased a
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property that was for sale. Some time that morning, Bryant
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arrived at Seascape. What exactly happened inside isn't entirely clear,
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but at some point before noon he murdered David and
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Noaeline Martin, first victims shot dead in their own home.
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A couple who had built a business together, who welcomed
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guests who had done nothing to deserve what happened to them.
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Bryant took their weapons stored at the property and locked
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up the building. He would return later. Around twelve thirty
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five p m. A couple stopped at Seascape. They wanted
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to look at the accommodation. Bryant met them outside told
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them they couldn't come in. His parents were away. His
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girlfriend was inside. The couple found him rude, felt uneasy.
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They left. Bryant got in his yellow Volvo and drove
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toward Port Arthur. On the way, he stopped to chat
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with a man whose car had overheated. Suggested the man
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come to the Port Arthur cafe for coffee. Later, normal
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interactions pleasant, even nobody suspected anything. Around one ten pm,
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Bryant paid the entry fee at the Port Arthur Historic Site,
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drove in parked near the Broad Arrow Cafe. A security
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manager told him to move his car. That area was
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reserved for camper vans. Bryant moved it, then moved it back,
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parked where he wanted. He walked toward the cafe, carrying
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a sports bag and a video camera, went inside, purchased
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a meal, took it out to the deck, sat down,
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ate lunch, smiled at people walking by, tried to make
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conversation about the lack of wasps, about there being fewer
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Japanese tourists than usual. Witnesses later described him as nervous,
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frequently looking back toward the car, park back toward the
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cafe interior. He finished his meal, stood up, walked inside,
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reached into his bag, one thirty pm. Approximately sixty people
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inside the Broad Arrow Cafe, Families eating lunch, tour groups
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taking a break, locals grabbing coffee, the normal hum of
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a busy restaurant on a Sunday afternoon. Bryant walked in
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from the deck, moved toward a table near the entrance,
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set down his bag, pulled out the colt AAR fifteen.
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He fired his first shot. What happened next took approximately
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ninety seconds. I'm going to walk you through it because
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the speed and efficiency of the killing is part of
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what made it so devas dating and part of what
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made Australia decide that weapons like this should never be
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available to civilians. Bryant's first victim was mix sergeant's girlfriend,
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Kate Elizabeth Scott, twenty one years old, shot in the head.
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Sergeant himself was wounded, survived. Bryant moved through the cafe methodically,
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not rushing, not panicking, firing at anyone in his path.
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He shot Mervin Howard fifty five. The bullet passed through
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Howard and through a window, then shot Mervin's wife Mary
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fifty seven. Anthony Nightingale forty four, stood up after hearing
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the first shots no, not here, he yelled. Bryant shot
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him through the neck and spine. Walter Bennett sixty six,
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Raymond Sharp sixty seven, Kevin Sharp sixty eight, Raymond's brother,
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shot in rapid succession. One bullet passed through Bennett and
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killed Raymond Sharp behind him. A twenty eight year old
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New Zealand winemaker named Jason Winter was helping the cafe
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staff when the shooting started. When Bryant turned toward Winter's wife,
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Joe Ann, and their fifteen month old son, Mitchell, Winter
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through a serving tray at Bryant, trying to distract him.
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By time, Joanne's father pushed her and the baby to
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the floor under a table. They survived. Jason Winter did not.
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Twelve people killed in the first fifteen seconds, ten more wounded,
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seventeen shots fired. Bryant moved toward the gift shop area
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attached to the cafe. People were hiding under tables behind displays,
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hoping he wouldn't see them. He found them. Nicole Burgess,
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seventeen years old, local girl worked at the gift shop,
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shot in the head. Elizabeth Howard, twenty six years old,
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also worked at the gift shop, shot in the arm
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and chest, two young women starting their careers killed at
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their workplace. Bryant walked back toward the cafe, saw a
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movement near the front door, fired at a table, hit
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Peter Crosswell, who was hiding underneath in the buttock. Crosswell survived.
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Jason Winter's body was in the gift shop, but Bryant
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saw movement nearby. Winter had thought Bryant had left, started
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to stand up, said something to others hiding with him. No, no,
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Winter said, just before Bryant shot him again, fatally, this
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time in the head. Bryant returned to the gift shop,
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found more people hiding. Ronald Jerry seventy one, Peter Nash
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thirty two, Pauline Masters forty nine, all shot dead. In total,
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twenty people killed inside the Broad Arrow Cafe in approximately
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ninety seconds. The cafe fell, silent, bodies everywhere, blood pooling
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on the stone floor, Survivors hiding under tables, playing dead.
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Too terrified to move, Bryant walked outside. He wasn't finished.
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Outside the cafe, Bryant moved toward his car. He'd left
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another weapon there, the SLR semi automatic point three eight rifle,
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more powerful than the AR. Fifteen people in the car
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park were confused. Some had heard the shots but didn't
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understand what was happening, thought it might be a historical
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reenactment part of the tourist experience. It wasn't. Bryant shot
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and killed the drivers of two tour buses, Royce Thompson
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fifty nine, Robert Salzman fifty seven, then passengers Helene Salzman
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fifty others were wounded. At the gift shop exit, Elva
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Gaillard forty eight and Jeannette Quinn fifty tried to flee.
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Both were shot dead. Gordon and Mary Nixon, tourists from Melbourne.
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Gordon was wounded, Mary sixty was killed. Some survivors described
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Bryan as calm, almost cheerful, like he was enjoying himself.
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He got into his Volvo, drove toward the site exit
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the toll booth. At the toll booth, he encountered a family.
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Nanette mcatch thirty two years old, walking with her two daughters,
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Alana six years old Madeleine three years old. Nannette saw Bryant,
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saw the gun, tried to shield her girls, reportedly pleaded
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with him, asked him to spare them. Bryant shot Nnette first,