'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.
The preacher had just passed his good friend Lori Kaye in the lobby. The pair exchanged smiles, and his immediate thought was that she"may have fell or a table tipped over."
"And I look at him. He had sunglasses on, I couldn't see his eyes, I couldn't see his soul. I froze." The badly wounded rabbi saw children were still playing in the banquet hall and he rushed to gather them and get them out -- including his own four-year-old granddaughter.Peretz"ran into the banquet hall, gathered more children, he got a bullet in his leg, risking himself to save the children."It was then that the assault weapon wielded by the shooter -- named as 19-year-old John Earnest -- jammed, creating an opening for others to jump in, said Goldstein.
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