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'Violent terrorist': Who is the white supremacist suspected in New Zealand mosque shootings?
Had planned attack for two years, he claims
Tarrant describes himself as a ethno-nationalist and a fascist in the manifesto, The Guardian reported, and claims to have planned Friday's attack for two years. He said New Zealand wasn't his original choice as a target but had scoped it out for three months.
Tarrant's father, Rodney Tarrant, died of cancer in 2010, when his son was in high school. Gray, his former employer, said she believes that he has a surviving mother and sister.
Some media reports have pointed to his death as the period when Tarrant started to become radicalized.
Tarrant in his manifesto, according to MSN News, wrote that he has read the writings of Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine African-Americans in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 , "and many others."
But he wrote that he "only really took true inspiration from Knight Justiciar Breivik." Breivik killed 77 in a terrorist attacked in Oslo, Norway.
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