Terrified mosque-goers who fled a mass shooting in Christchurch told a neighbour they saw a uniform-clad gunman with "a lot of magazines strapped to his legs".
Oakford Close resident Robert Weatherhead has taken in about 13 men and a boy aged about 3 after they escaped from Al Noor Mosque.
Earlier, he helped three people who had been shot at the mosque.
"One man had been shot twice - once in the abdomen and once in the shoulder ... he was conscious."