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“For immersive, compassionate coverage of the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue that captured the anguish and resilience of a community thrust into grief.” — Pulitzer Prize Jury
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'We just wanted to stay alive': As shooting began, Barry Werber hid in a closet and called 911
By Ashley Murray and Peter Smith
As a gunman stalked the rooms of Tree of Life synagogue Saturday morning, Barry Werber hid in a dark storage closet thinking about his family and about “trying to stay alive.”
“Let me be very honest, I was frightened, I was scared, I have a wife at home ill, and I have a son living in Squirrel Hill, and I didn’t want to leave them.”
Mr. Werber was one of the congregants who survived the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue Saturday. Eleven others — including Melvin Wax, an 87-year-old man who hid alongside him in the closet — were killed. …