On 26 March 2020, he pleaded guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act, and in August was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole – the first such sentence in New Zealand.
He live-streamed the first shooting on Facebook, marking the first successfully live-streamed far-right terror attack, and had published an online manifesto before the attack. He was described in media reports as a white supremacist. Tarrant was arrested after his vehicle was rammed by a police unit as he was driving to a third mosque in Ashburton. and later at the Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52 p.m. They were committed by Brenton Tarrant who entered both mosques during Friday prayer, firstly at the Al Noor Mosque at 1:40 p.m. The Christchurch mosque shootings were two consecutive mass shootings on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on 15 March 2019. Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole 223-caliber Mossberg Predator bolt-action rifle
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