In Brenton Harrison Tarrant’s Australian hometown, his relatives remember violent video games, trouble with women
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On the road into this small city, a sign is evidence of a community in shock: “He does not represent us,” it says, referring to the alleged killer few here will even name.
But nowhere was the shock more evident than among the relatives of 28-year-old Brenton Harrison Tarrant, who has been accused of a hate-fueled massacre that left 50 people dead in two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday.
“We’re all gobsmacked. We don’t know what to think,” Marie Fitzgerald, Tarrant’s 81-year-old grandmother, told Australia’s 9News in an interview. “The media is saying he’s planned it for a long time, so he’s obviously not of sound mind, I don’t think.”
In Australian media, a picture began to emerge of a young man who grew up with computers as his best friends, lost in a world of violent video games, uncomfortable around girls.
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