The suspected Christchurch mosque gunman told his arresting officers he was one of nine people involved in the March 15 terror attack, sources say. The prospect other offenders may still have been at large prompted a citywide lockdown of schools and businesses, and into the afternoon police still believed they were looking for multiple active shooters – at one point the figure six was circulated among staff. Police Commissioner Mike Bush has confirmed in statements and interviews that the attack involved only one shooter. Two police officers rammed the gunman's car on Brougham St at 2.02pm on March 15 – 21 minutes after police received the first 111 call from the Al Noor Masjid on Deans Ave. A passer-by took a video of the suspect's arrest, which shows the police officers pull the suspect out of the car and drag him along the footpath away from his vehicle – a gold Subaru that allegedly had two bombs (improvised explosive devices) and firearms inside. 43 people were shot and killed at that mosque. A further seven were allegedly fatally shot at the Linwood mosque. Police stopped the suspect as he allegedly sped to his third target, the Ashburton Masjid. If that was me, I would have gone to Linwood first, to save time and petrol versus having to travel east for attack number 2 and then back west for attack number 3. And I would have taken the time to study the mosques with particular emphasis on Linwood as the shooter didn’t know his way round, which contributed to the lower death toll there. And I would also be making a stopover at the An-Nur kindergarten on Springs Road on my way to Ashburton.
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