Coffee Shop Manager Killed While Trying To Overcome Sydney Shooter (Picture)

The café manager who launched himself at the gunman holding 17 people hostage in Sydney was remembered as a hero on Tuesday, as full details emerged of how the drama came to a bloody end.

Tori Johnson was one of two hostages who died in the Lindt café on Monday night at the end of the siege that gripped Australia and beyond.

Events had not been going to plan for the gunman, Man Haron Monis. Several of his hostages had already escaped from the café. His demands to be given an Islamic State flag – he had brought the wrong one – had not been answered. The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, would not telephone him. Radio stations refused to broadcast his message. Sixteen hours into the siege, he was tiring.

Mr Johnson saw his opportunity and lunged for Monis’s gun. In the hazy half-minute that followed, the 34-year-old café manager tried to wrestle with Monis for the weapon and three shots were fired.  MOREHERE