At 1.30pm he then went back inside the Cafe and opened fire with a COLT M16 CAR .223 Cal. Rifle killing 25 people in 90 seconds then left the Cafe shooting at people in and around the car park killing and wounding more - during that time he switched guns to an FN SLR .308 Rifle . He then is alleged to have driven his yellow Volvo out of the site shooting people along the way and at the tollbooth. The BMW then proceeds at high speed 6 km north to Seascape where he stops and shoots at cars on the highway injuring more people. The time is now around 2pm.
Local police wait in a ditch for several hours while shots are fired from Seascape.
After dark Special Operations Group Police arrive at Seascape. At 7.45am the following morning Seascape errupts in smoke on fire. At 8.40am Martin Bryant -clothes on fire emerges from the rear of Seascape staggering and unarmed and is apprehended by police with TV News cameras rolling. Bryant remains in hospital isolated for several weeks. He denies committing the shootings to police when interviewed.