Jack Stein, who lives near the scene of the stabbing attack in a New York synagogue where 5 people were wounded, said "I heard from eyewitnesses that the rabbi had finished lighting the candles, entered his room, and then at that moment the front door of the house was opened. A dark-skinned man came into the house, didn't say a word - just pulled out a machete that was in a leather sheath and just started hacking.
"Unbelievable hysteria broke out, someone threw a chair at him," Stein continued in an interview with Channel 13 News. "The one who threw the chair probably sparked even more anger in him, and the attacker turned on him and stabbed him three more times. From there, he headed to the kitchen, where there was a man who probably turned around in the yard, a man who has slight retardation and was stunned and paralyzed with fear; he struck him the hardest."