The 24‑year‑old Naveed Akram, who is accused of killing fifteen people in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, has now been charged with an additional nineteen criminal offences.
These new charges include ten counts of shoot‑at‑with‑intent‑to‑murder, six counts of discharging a firearm with intent to resist arrest and three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder.
Akram already faces 59 charges from the incident, including 15 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of committing a terrorist act.
Investigators are processing massive evidence, including 230,000 CCTV images and data from devices linked to people associated with Akram; the material must be translated and analyzed.
Akram’s legal team says the extra charges are not surprising and that the case will continue as investigations advance.
The bondi beach shooting was Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly three decades and sparked sweeping gun law reforms, hate‑speech crackdowns and a royal commission into antisemitism.
