Atta Elayyan
Atta Mohammed Elayyan (; 21 June 1985 – 15 March 2019) was a Jordanian-New Zealand futsal player, coach, businessman, and developer. As a futsal player, Elayyan played on the New Zealand national futsal team and coached for the Christchurch Boys' High School. As a businessman and developer, he founded several businesses including Lazyworm Applications and LWA Solutions. He was murdered in the Christchurch mosque shootings. Early life Atta Mohammed Elayyan was born in Kuwait, to parents Maysoon Salama and Mohammed Elayyan. However, he grew up in Jordan. He was of Palestinian ancestry, and his father was from the Abu Dis area of East Jerusalem. Beginning in the early 1990s, Elayyan lived in Corvallis, Oregon, where his father established a mosque and school. There he attended Wilson Elementary School. He later moved to Christchurch, as a preteen, and attended Christchurch Boys' High School, Lincoln High school, and the University of Canterbury's computer science programme. His father, Mohammed Elayyan, co-founded one of the Christchurch mosques in 1993, a year after arriving in New Zealand. From 2002 until 2008, Elayyan was a member of the New Zealand–based Counter-Strike team called NewType. He played Counter-Strike: Source professionally in this time, and won several competitions.