Photo: Brenton Tarrant pictured in North Korea. (Supplied)
Posted on 03/15/2019 9:49:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Gym manager Tracey Gray confirmed the man who filmed the attack and streamed it online was Tarrant.
She said he worked at the gym after he finished school in 2009 until 2011, when he left to go travelling overseas in Asia and in Europe.
"He was a very dedicated personal trainer," Ms Gray said.
"He worked in our program that offered free training to kids in the community, and he was very passionate about that."
Ms Gray said Tarrant did not strike her as someone who had an interest in firearms.
"I think something must have changed in him during the years he spent travelling overseas," she said.
Tarrant said he worked for a short time before making some money from Bitconnect, a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, then used the money to fund his travels.
Tarrant is known to have visited Europe, South-East Asia and east Asia.
His travels also took him to North Korea, where he was photographed in a tour group visiting the Samjiyon Grand Monument.
Tarrant described himself as a "regular white man, from a regular family" who was born in Australia to a "working class, low-income family".
Ms Gray said she recalled that Tarrant's father Rodney died from some kind of asbestos-related illness when Tarrant was finishing high school.
She believed that he still had a surviving sister and mother.
An obituary for Rodney Tarrant in local newspaper the Daily Examiner in August 2010 said he died of cancer at the age of 49 in April 2010.
A family photo taken in the 1990s shows Brenton, a toddler with a curly mop of hair, in his father's arms. Rodney is wearing a Gold Coast Marathon t-shirt and his wife and daughter are beside him.
Photo: Brenton Tarrant pictured in North Korea. (Supplied)
The low life is in North Korea, smiling.
Caller Theory was on Rush that he is a Leftist that did this to discredit Trump. Says in manifesto that he does not like Trump...............
The greatest fear the young socialists have is that there are/will be too many people on this planet.
The greatest fear the old socialists have is that they won’t get a yacht.
there are pictures of him in Afghanistan too.
I think he is a actually a muzzie sympathizer.....probably pulled this off with the help of his “Asian” contacts....
He claimed to be a socialist, hated conservatives.
His goal was to motivate leftists to further restrict 2nd amendment rights...sounds a lot like the Vegas shooter.
A thought just occurred to me - I’m really surprised that none of our soldiers, after coming home, went off like this. If any had a reason to, they probably would have, yes?
But the ABCNNBCBSNYTWAPO narrative has already been broadcast that he was a Trump Supporter Right Wing White Supremacist........................
He must be the Zelig of the Left!...............
....... I'm pretty sure he only mentioned Trump once by name in the manifesto and it sounds like he was praising him not chastising him calling Trump ".... a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose".
Probably saw how many muzzies were infiltrating all those places, and went bonkers when he saw it happening to Australia, and New Zealand.
Where did he get thew dough?.................
Not sure when his Dad died, but maybe he got an inheritance when he passed. Or maybe he worked as a trainer as he traveled around those places. Of course, journalists today never cover all the bases, and never ask the pertinent questions.
And why was he in NK?..............
Reread the article. It doesn't give a specific date for his trip to NK. It does make you wonder why he went there. I did a search for Samjiyon Grand Monument. Found this:
Samjiyon Grand Monument This impressive monument is standing on the shore of Samji lake with Mount Paekdu as background. It is the second biggest monument to Kim Il Song. Samjiyon Grand Monument was unveiled in May Juche 68 (1979) to commemorate President Kim II Sung's revolutionary activity during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle."
There was a link that took me to this tourism page:
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.