Fiend’s kin ‘so sorry’
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The family of the white supremacist who slaughtered 50 people in the New Zealand mosque shootings apologized for his actions on Sunday.
Brenton Tarrant’s uncle Terry Fitzgerald said the carnage his nephew unleashed on two mosques in Christchurch on Friday was “just not right.”
“We are so sorry for the families . . . for the dead and the injured,” Fitzgerald told Australian broadcaster 9News. “Yeah, we just can’t think nothing else, just want to go home and hide.”
The Australian mass shooter’s 81-year-old grandmother, Marie Fitzgerald, said from her home in New South Wales that the family is at a loss.
“We’re all gobsmacked,” she said. “It’s just so much for everything to take in that somebody in our family would do anything like this.”
She said that her grandson spent a lot of his youth playing computer games and browsing the Internet and that she didn’t think “girlfriends were on the agenda.”
Marie Fitzgerald noted that his father died from cancer in 2010 and also cited Tarrant’s travels to Europe.
“It’s only since he traveled overseas that the boy has changed completely,” she said.
The last time she saw him was two weeks ago when he returned to his hometown, the eastern Australian city of Grafton, for his sister’s birthday.
“He was just his normal self. We all chatted and had a meal together to celebrate that occasion,” Fitzgerald said, noting authorities believe her grandson had been planning Friday’s attacks for two years.
“Now everybody is just devastated. ‘Shattered’ is the word.”