Bondi Beach shooting hero says he just wanted to save innocent people

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Ahmed al Ahmed, the antheral hailed arsenic a leader for tackling 1 of the gunmen down an antisemitic attack connected Australia's Bondi Beach earlier this month, is speaking retired successful the aftermath of the massacre.

In an exclusive interrogation with CBS News that airs Monday connected "CBS Mornings," al Ahmed said helium "didn't interest astir anything" but for the lives helium could perchance prevention arsenic helium sought to disarm the shooter.

"My people was conscionable to instrumentality the weapon from him, and to halt him from sidesplitting a quality being's beingness and not sidesplitting guiltless people," helium recalled. "I cognize I saved lots, but I consciousness atrocious for the lost."

Al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian Muslim store owner, has received planetary praise for disarming 1 of 2 gunmen accused of perpetrating the Dec. 14 wide shooting, which was Australia's worst since 1996. Surveillance footage showed him leap retired from down a parked car on the beachfront and wrestle 1 assailant to the ground, successfully disarming him earlier al Ahmed became wounded himself.

"I jumped successful his back, deed him. I clasp him with my close manus and commencement saying a word, you know, similar to pass him, driblet your gun, halt doing what you're doing, and it's travel each successful fast," al Ahmed said of his conflict to region the limb from the gunman's grasp. "And emotionally, I'm doing something, which is I consciousness something, a powerfulness successful my body, my encephalon ... I don't privation to spot radical killed successful beforehand of me, I don't privation to perceive his gun, I don't privation to spot radical screaming and begging, asking for help, and that's my psyche asking maine to bash that."

He added, "Everything successful my heart, successful my brain, everything, it's worked conscionable to negociate to prevention the peoples' life."

The shooting happened astatine a Hanukkah solemnisation and intentionally targeted Sydney's Jewish community, Australian and U.S. officials person said. Fifteen radical died and different 40 were hospitalized with injuries.

Police identified the attackers arsenic 50-year-old Sajid Akram, who was killed by officers astatine the scene, and his 24-year-old son, Naveed Akram.

See much of the interrogation Monday connected "CBS Mornings," beginning astatine 7 a.m. ET/PT.