Disabled man whose wife was shot dead in New Zealand terror attack says he has forgiven the shooter
A disabled man whose wife was shot dead at one of the mosques in the Christchurch terror attacks last Friday has said he has forgiven the shooter.
Farid Ahmed, a quadriplegic, was at the Al Noor mosque with his wife Husna Ahmed when 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant stormed in and opened fire at the hundreds gathered there for prayers.
Husna was shot dead when she returned for Ahmed after she had led many women and children to safety out of a side entrance. Ahmed, who wheeled himself out the mosque during the incident, said that he could simply not hate Tarrant despite what he did to his wife.
"I was asked 'how do you feel about the person who killed your wife?' and I said 'I love that person because he is a human, a brother of mine,'" he told the New Zealand Herald.