Following the list of demands one hostage was forced to release on Facebook, police finally raided the Sydney café where a gunman had been holding a bunch of people hostage for more than 15 hours, resulting in two deaths — one of which is the hostage-taker himself.
Police identified the hostage-taker as Iranian Sheik Man Haron Monis, a self-styled preacher and alleged sexual predator who has previously pleaded guilty to writing unsympathetic letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers. He was also on bail after being charged with being an accessory to the murder of his former wife and mother of his 2 kids.
Here’s how it all went down:
