Bondi Beach Shooter Faces 19 New Charges

Sydney court hearings show Naveed Akram, 24, who shot and killed 15 people during the December Bondi Beach festival, now faces 19 additional offences.

He was already charged with 59 counts, including 15 murders, 40 attempted murders and a terrorist act, but prosecutors added 10 counts of shooting with intent to kill, six of firing a gun to resist arrest and three of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to kill.

The defendant has not entered a plea and is scheduled to appear again in August. Joint Counter Terrorism Team investigators are sifting through 230,000 CCTV images and related device footage.

Akram’s father, who was also armed and fired at the crowd, was killed by police on 14 Dec 2025. Police said the two men had planned the attack months earlier, conducted firearms training in NSW, and recorded video messages praising extremist ideology.

The shooting remains Australia’s worst mass‑shooting in almost thirty years, sparking gun‑law reforms, hate‑speech crackdowns and a royal commission into antisemitism.