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Authorities in Australia have charged a 24-year-old man in connection with the shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach over the weekend that killed 15 people and injured multiple others.
Naveed Akram was named as one of the suspects in the initial stages of the investigation, according to local media cited by the BBC. A New South Wales (NSW) Police Force spokesperson confirmed in an email to PEOPLE that Akram was the one charged.
The second suspected gunman — Naveed's father, Sajid Akram, 50 — was shot by police and died at the scene, the BBC reported.
On Wednesday, Dec. 17, the NSW Police Force confirmed that "the NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team has formally charged a 24-year-old man alleged to be one of two gunmen responsible for the Bondi Beach mass shooting that claimed the lives of 15 people," per a news release.
Forty-one people, including four children, were taken to hospital following the shooting, which occurred at around 6:40 p.m. local time on Sunday, Dec. 14.
