‘I’m Barely Breathing’: Synagogue Survivor Recounts Terror

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PITTSBURGH—A survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre described on Oct. 29, how he and other terrorized worshippers concealed themselves in a supply closet as the gunman stepped over the body of a man he had just shot and killed, entered their darkened hiding spot and looked around.

“I can’t say anything, and I’m barely breathing,” recalled Barry Werber, 76, in an interview with The Associated Press. “He didn’t see us, thank God.”