Anonymous police sources tell public service channel ABC News that the perpetrators are Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid Akram, 50. The names have not been officially confirmed by police.
The father died after an exchange of gunfire with police, police confirm. The son is being treated in hospital with serious injuries, but his condition is described as stable.
The son was born in Australia, while the father arrived in 1998 on a student visa, according to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke. It is not confirmed which country the father came from. His student visa was converted to a partner visa in 2001.
Every trip abroad since then has been on a “resident return visa” which has occurred three times, Burke said at a press conference on Monday, local time.
Rented airbnb
The two shooters lived in the Sydney suburb of Bonnyrigg, about an hour's drive from Bondi, in a single-storey brick house, several media outlets report. However, a couple of weeks ago they moved to an Airbnb in the Campsie district, slightly closer to the scene of the attack, the BBC reports.
Police confirm that two house searches have been carried out: one in Bonnyrigg and one in Campsie.
The father received a gun license in 2015 and had a license for six weapons. Six weapons were also found in Bondi after the crime, and police will now investigate whether these are actually the ones he had a license for.
The son known by police
The Australian Security Police, Asio, was made aware of the son in October 2019. He was then investigated for six months.
He was reviewed on the basis of his connections to others and the assessment made was that there was no indication of any ongoing threat or risk that he would engage in violence, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at Monday's press conference.
It was about people he was associated with rather than things he himself had done.
Two explosive devices were found in a car near the beach. They were handled by the bomb squad and turned out to be live devices. A third explosive device was found in Bondi on Monday.
The suspected perpetrators had two ISIS flags in the car, according to information provided to ABC News.
Acted alone
However, there is no evidence that they were both part of a terrorist cell, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Monday.
"Additional information may become known, but it appears that these two have acted alone, albeit driven by this evil ideology," he said in an interview with ABC.
He says the act was driven by anti-Semitic ideology.
It is an extreme distortion of Islam that has resulted in these catastrophic consequences, says Albanese.
It is likely that the younger perpetrator will be able to be brought to justice, said Mal Lanyon, police chief in the state of New South Wales.
