Overview
- Randwick Rugby Club confirmed the death of Peter Meagher, a longtime volunteer and first-grade team manager since 2018 who was named the club’s volunteer of the year in 2020.
- Meagher, a retired New South Wales Police Detective Sergeant with nearly four decades of service, was working as a freelance photographer at the Chanukah by the Sea event in Archer Park when he was killed.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the shooting deliberately targeted a Jewish festival; officials report 15 people dead and dozens hospitalised, in what outlets note is Australia’s worst mass shooting since Port Arthur in 1996.
- Local media have reported the alleged attackers as Sajid Akram and his son Naveed; police say one suspect was shot dead at the scene and the other is in custody in critical condition.
- Rugby Australia, NSW Rugby Union and the Waratahs issued a joint tribute to Meagher and offered condolences to all victims while thanking first responders.