He said his nanas shop at that supermarket so when he saw the elderly lady being attacked, he said: 'I got probably too close than I should have and yelled at him over his chanting which got his attention, he was coming for me.'īut he said luckily the police arrived in time. Tomlinson said three of them kept approaching the man, while keeping a safe distance, 'just trying to distract him from injuring people'. It just shows their Kiwi spirit I guess, which is really impressive and nice to see.' 'People are still going to the supermarkets and people are still rallying around each other. 'Although one single person wanted to cause terror and take people's lives, he wasn't successful in that. 'Saying that, humanity was the takeaway message: Kiwis stand up for what's right. 'So, it's really impressive to see normal Kiwis step up to people that have crazy ideology, and ideology that we don't support in New Zealand, to kind of stand up for people that are injured and help them. 'I've had years of emergency training to deal with emergency situations, but for those people they didn't have that. Them being involved was quite impressive, he said.

He said there were three or four of them 'yelling at him and giving him instruction to drop the knife'. 'There was a lady laying on the ground with quite significant stab wounds and as I went to approach her, the terrorist was in one of the aisles, pretty close to her still just pacing around that general area.' Tomlinson, a paramedic of 10 years, told Morning Report he ran towards the commotion. He was shopping there on Friday afternoon when he heard people had been stabbed. Ross Tomlinson was one of about three people who tried to stop terrorist Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen in the New Lynn supermarket. Man chased by LynnMall terrorist says Kiwis stood up 'for what's right' Knives have been removed from the shelves at the moment but Hannifin was not sure whether they would be back. She said staff at the Dunedin Countdown, where a man went on a stabbing rampage in May, were also being offered support.

So, there's all of that intensive support.' 'We had eight trauma psychologists working with all of that team, but we also called them on Friday night and over yesterday as well. 'On Saturday and we got all of the team who were working on Friday into our neighbouring store in Kelston. She said support was being made available to anyone at Countdown who needed it. Staff in Dunedin were also being offered support.Ĭountdown spokesperson Kiri Hannifin told Morning Report staff in the Auckland were stunned, shocked and shaken by the events of Friday afternoon. RNZ reported this morning trauma psychologists have met with Countdown staff who were working when the Auckland attack took place in their supermarket. The terror attack had similarities to a stabbing spree at Countdown Dunedin Central during which a 42-year-old allegedly stabbed two staff members and a married couple on May 10. Photo: NZ HeraldStaff at Countdown Dunedin Central are being offered support in the wake of a terror attack at an Auckland store which brought back memories of a stabbing spree in Dunedin in May.Īhamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police on Friday after stabbing six people inside Countdown LynnMall - a seventh person was also injured.

Ross Tomlinson outside Lynn Mall being spoken to by a police officer on the day of the stabbing terror attack.

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