Hero Died While Tackling New Zealand Mass Shooter: 'He Makes Me Proud,' Says Sister
Aya Al-Umari ate dinner with her big brother, Hussein Al-Umari, last Thursday night.
When he left, she was in her bedroom with the door shut, so she didn’t have a chance to say goodbye. All evening, she recalls to PEOPLE, he had teased her about her new t-shirt, which reads, “SEE YOU BYE.”
Just one day later, Hussein Al-Umari died in the terrorist attacks on two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques. When Aya later noticed her “SEE YOU BYE” t-shirt slung over a chair in her room, she felt it was her brother saying farewell to her.
Hussein Al-Umari, 35, was a friendly, generous, protective older brother, Aya Al-Umari says. Hussein and his sister were both born in the United Arab Emirates to Iraqi parents. They emigrated to New Zealand in 1997. “We’ve got three homes,” says Aya, 33.
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On Friday, Hussein went to services. And when the gunman entered the mosque, instead of running away, he ran toward the shooter, Aya Al-Umari says, yelling at him, “Get out of here.” Hussein died trying to tackle the assailant, she says.
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