The San Francisco police department and the FBI are looking for a man, who fired a gun several times inside a synagogue in the Richmond district.
Synagogue officials said a group of people was sitting at a table for a class and celebration following evening prayer services. Then, he pulled out a gun and began firing possible blanks across the room. "The people are in so much shock, half of them don’t realize what’s happening," said Alon Chanukov, vice president of the Schneerson Center. "They hear noises, a few of them duck, they didn’t get out of their seats before it was over.
"Now he’s upset at us for putting him in jail, he goes and starts smashing the synagogue, or gets something worse, that was the reason no one reported it," said Chanukov. "The fact that he brought the Mossad in, and thought that by shooting up this place and doing the terrorizing these elderly Jewish people, and this family synagogue, community center, that he’s somehow hurting the state of Israel," said Chanukov.
Despite the terrifying incident, Chanukov says the scary incident will not stop synagogue from welcoming anyone to pray and be part of their community.
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