San Bernardino shooting survivor struggles to make sense of attack
12/04/15 10:40 PM—Updated 12/04/15 10:44 PM
By Amanda Sakuma
SAN BERNARDINO, California — It’s a miracle that AK survived. She had already been shot three times — once in each arm, another time in the stomach. Two more shots could have easily ended her life.
Instead, the bullets whizzed above her head, sinking deep into the wall behind her.
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...K’s husband, S, expressed little doubt over how to both define the horrific slayings and differentiate them from the traditional teachings of Islam.
“This is definitely [an] act of terrorism — killing innocent human beings,” he told the congregation after prayer at the Islamic Center of Riverside on Friday afternoon.
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“My faith has not been shaken at all, with all of these things,” K later told MSNBC. “You have to look at the crime one way and the religion another way. But it’s easy to just blame a religion.”
Thursday night was the first time in 48 hours that K was finally able to close his eyes and sleep. His wife is still struggling to do the same. She only has a single bandage left on her arm from where the bullet pierced her skin, but the wounds of trauma will linger for some time.
In rapid flashes of gunfire, she watched 12 of her colleagues die. One of the assailants who pulled the trigger, she says, was another fellow co-worker that she knew fairly well.
And yet A survived.
