Saturday, August 14, 1999
Receptionist Recounts Face-to-Face Encounter With Gunman
Tragedy: In her first interview, Isabelle Shalometh, who was shot twice, describes the scene at the
Jewish community center as gunfire erupted
Isabelle Shalometh was returning to her reception desk to help the burly,
balding man who had walked into the North Valley Jewish Community
Center.
She had just made eye contact, was leaning forward to ask how she could
help him, when she saw him pull out a gun and begin shooting.
In her first interview since Buford O. Furrow Jr. allegedly walked into the community
center Tuesday morning and sprayed gunfire that struck her, three young boys and a
teenage camp counselor, Shalometh described what happened.
The man started to the right, fanning his gunfire in a semicircle down the hallway,
across her desk and down the hallway to the left. And then he was gone.
Anyone who got hit was in that hallway, she said.
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