A harrowing new update has emerged about Ahmed Al-Ahmed, the man whose split-second decision to confront a gunman during the Bondi Beach mass shooting helped stop further bloodshed, but left him fighting for far more than a clean recovery.
The 43-year-old Syrian-born father of two young daughters, remains hospitalized after sustaining injuries that his former migration lawyer says are far more severe than initially reported.
The revelation has cast a sobering shadow over the viral footage that showed him wresting a firearm from the attacker as gunfire tore through a crowded beachside Hanukkah celebration.