Goldstein found himself face to face with the teenage gunman responsible for killing Kaye and wounding three others.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of Poway synagogue had been finalizing his sermon for the last day of Passover when he heard a loud bang and stopped in his tracks.
“I turn around and I see a sight that I – indescribable. Here is a young man standing with a rifle, pointing right at me,” he said. But before he could get to her, “more shots came” and he raised his hands — eventually losing his right index finger to a bullet despite a four-hour surgery to try to save it.
Two others attempted to stop Earnest from fleeing, including Oscar Stewart, an ex-US soldier, who tried to tackle him — and off-duty Border Patrol officer Jonathan Morales, who began coming to the synagogue after recently discovering his Jewish roots.
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