Updated timeline of Christchurch terrorist attack released by police
STUFF - 2019/04/16 13:54
In the minutes after the terror attack began at 1.40pm, police also believed they had three shooting scenes on their hands. There were reports that shots were fired at Christchurch Hospital's emergency department, but it later transpired that did not happen.
Police learned about the Linwood attack at 1.56pm, when a member of the public flagged down a police car and told them shots had been fired in the east Christchurch area.
The new details are contained in a just-released detailed timeline of the police response to the Christchurch terror attacks.
On Wednesday, Commissioner Mike Bush said the public should have as much information about the response as possible.
ARREST 18 MINUTES AFTER ATTACK STARTED
The response began at 1.40pm on March 15. It took six minutes after the first 111 call for the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) to arrive at the scene.
An email with the alleged shooter's manifesto was received by several people, including Parliamentary Services.
Forty-four seconds later, Parliamentary Services called the police southern communications centre. That call lasted 12 minutes.
"We now know that while police was talking to Parliamentary Services the attack at Al Noor Mosque was already under way, having begun 44 seconds prior to Parliamentary Services calling," Bush said.
At 1.41pm, police received the first 111 call.
By 1.43pm, all available police units were en route to the Al Noor Mosque.
At 1.46pm, AOS members arrived near the scene. They left their vehicle, started approaching the mosque and a member stopped to help a critically injured victim.
"At this point the alleged offender is leaving the area, and his vehicle is obscured from the view of these AOS members by a bus," Bush said.
"At this time there is no vehicle description, no information an offender has left the mosque, or how many shooters there are."
First responders arrived at the mosque at 1.51pm.
It took the alleged offender six minutes to get to the Linwood mosque. He was there for three minutes, before leaving at 1.55pm.
Sixteen seconds later, at 1.56pm, a member of the public flagged down a police car to advise shots had been fired in Linwood. Around the same time, police released information that shots have been fired at the Christchurch Emergency Department. It later transpired that no shots had been fired at the hospital.
At 1.57pm, the vehicle was seen by a police car on Brougham St and a pursuit began. The vehicle was stopped at 1.59pm and the offender was apprehended, Bush said.
There were 18 minutes from the time of the first 111 call to the arrest of the offender.
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