Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence visited Chabad of Poway, the San Diego, California synagogue that was the site of an anti-Semitic shooting, on Thursday.
Three people were wounded and one woman was killed in the shooting that took place at the synagogue in late April 2019.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein embraced Pence as he entered Poways lobby, according to a White House pool report. Goldsteins hands were still wrapped with a blue bandage, covering the injuries he received from the gunman.
VP Mike Pence visits the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego, California to honor shooting victims (Daily Caller)
“We had to come,” Pence told Goldstein.
Goldstein walked Pence through the attack, pointing out where he stared down the shooters assault rifle, retracing the shooters footsteps, and showing how people fled.
“I was looking down the barrel of a rifle, right here in my home,” Goldstein said. “I heard children playing behind me.”
“As he shot and tried to kill me, he got my fingers,” he stated.
Also present during the unannounced visit was Oscar Stewart, the combat veteran who is credited with helping to chase the shooter away after his gun jammed.
“I knew I had to be within five feet of this guy so his rifle couldnt get to me,” Stewart told the Daily Caller after the attack. “So I ran immediately toward him, and I yelled as loud as I could. And he was scared. I scared the hell out of him.”
Stewart told Pence on Thursday that he remembered the muzzle flashes from the shooters gun.
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“That darkness was pushed out of here,” Goldstein said. “God was really protecting us.”
Goldstein ushered press and the Pence family into the sanctuary, where he prayed for the Pences, thanked President Donald Trump for inviting him to the White House back in May and applauded the administrations support for the Jewish community. Read More – Source
Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence visited Chabad of Poway, the San Diego, California synagogue that was the site of an anti-Semitic shooting, on Thursday.
Three people were wounded and one woman was killed in the shooting that took place at the synagogue in late April 2019.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein embraced Pence as he entered Poways lobby, according to a White House pool report. Goldsteins hands were still wrapped with a blue bandage, covering the injuries he received from the gunman.
VP Mike Pence visits the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego, California to honor shooting victims (Daily Caller)
“We had to come,” Pence told Goldstein.
Goldstein walked Pence through the attack, pointing out where he stared down the shooters assault rifle, retracing the shooters footsteps, and showing how people fled.
“I was looking down the barrel of a rifle, right here in my home,” Goldstein said. “I heard children playing behind me.”
“As he shot and tried to kill me, he got my fingers,” he stated.
Also present during the unannounced visit was Oscar Stewart, the combat veteran who is credited with helping to chase the shooter away after his gun jammed.
“I knew I had to be within five feet of this guy so his rifle couldnt get to me,” Stewart told the Daily Caller after the attack. “So I ran immediately toward him, and I yelled as loud as I could. And he was scared. I scared the hell out of him.”
Stewart told Pence on Thursday that he remembered the muzzle flashes from the shooters gun.
WATCH:
“That darkness was pushed out of here,” Goldstein said. “God was really protecting us.”
Goldstein ushered press and the Pence family into the sanctuary, where he prayed for the Pences, thanked President Donald Trump for inviting him to the White House back in May and applauded the administrations support for the Jewish community. Read More – Source
