- One person was killed and three were injured in a shooting at the Chabad of Poway.
- The synagogue’s founding rabbi identified the victim as 60-year-old Lori Kaye, who witnesses said jumped in the line of fire to protect the rabbi who was conducting services.
- The rabbi was among the injured, but reportedly kept delivering his sermon during the attack, urging the congregation to stay strong and embrace unity.
- Two others, including an eight-year-old girl, were also injured in the attack.
A gunman opened fire on the Chabad of Poway synagogue on Saturday, the last day of Passover, killing one person and injuring three people, including a child.
Rabbi Yonah Fradkin, executive director of Chabad of San Diego County said in a statement hours after the attack that the one victim of the shooting was 60-year-old Lori Kaye. Witnesses told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Kaye jumped in the way to protect the synagogue’s founding rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein.
“In the face of senseless hate we commit to live proudly as Jews in this glorious country,” Fradkin said. “We strongly believe that love is exponentially more powerful than hate. We are deeply shaken by the loss of a true woman of valor, Lori Kaye, who lost her life solely for living as a Jew.”
Read the article by Ellen Cranley in Business Insider Australia.