He's lying in the hospital, shot twice, fighting for his life. He would give the shirt off his back to help anybody. Our whole family is traumatized. |
I was holding his hand. He asked me to get his prayer shawl. It was his father's. But we couldn't find it in the chaos. |
In the next minutes, I heard four gunshots. |
Ironically, we left South Africa to escape the violence over here. |
It's almost a done deal. |
It's just an act of God that he's alive. |
It's taking the state police forever to run the check and get the information back to us. |
Justice indicated if the board developed and approved a plan similar to the one that was adopted that they wouldn't object. |
Minutes before he got shot in temple, he told me he wanted to buy concert tickets for a congregant because he knew [the congregant] couldn't afford them. That's what he was thinking about. |
nobody knew he had a gun. |
That was a big relief. |
The doctors are positive, so that's reassuring. This is one of those tragic situations where someone is trying to do something good for somebody, and it turns against you. |
The reason he got into this mess is because he wanted to help somebody. When he's back on his feet he'll probably help the next person. |
There's been a long history to his behavior and I think this is something (Benayer) has most likely has been planning. They tried mediating and speaking to (Benayer) to no avail, and this is what he did on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. He came to the temple with a gun, called my brother-in-law out of the temple. My brother-in-law tried to talk it over once more, and his reply was to shoot him in the back . |
They have tried very hard. That's just how the legal system works. It's not frustrating - it's a tragic situation. These are wonderful people. |