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The rabbi of a California synagogue that was the scene of a mass shooting recalls the moment the suspected shooter pointed a gun at him.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, just out of surgery for a gunshot wound, continues to speak about the synagogue shooting. “As soon as (the gunman) saw me, he started to shoot towards me and I just sort of put my hands up and my fingers got blown away.” #ChabadofPoway #SundayTODAY
“He was holding the rifle and was looking straight at me, and as soon as he saw me, he started to shoot,” he says.
Goldstein says he put his hands up to protect himself and lost one of his fingers in the shooting.
One person, 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye, was killed in the shooting. The rabbi remembered her as a “pioneering, founding member” of the congregation and says he is “heartbroken” by her death.
Three others, including Goldstein, were injured.
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On the last day of Passover, a gunman opened fire inside the Chabad of Poway in California. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the temple describes the horrific scene: “I heard a large banging, a large noise, and I turned around and I was face to face with this murder, this terrorist.” pic.twitter.com/FyRONXxNuE
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 28, 2019
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, just out of surgery for a gunshot wound, continues to speak about the synagogue shooting. “As soon as (the gunman) saw me, he started to shoot towards me and I just sort of put my hands up and my fingers got blown away.” #ChabadofPoway #SundayTODAY pic.twitter.com/ZTXkcK4VRa
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 28, 2019
powerful words from the heart
brave and wholesome to hear
a great inspiration to fight and stand up for what’s right & good In this world
Wow amazing speech, made me cry