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According to a family friend, a doctor whose wife was killed in the attack on Saturday's synagogue had started an urgent cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedure. She did not know who he was helping.
The gunshot victim, 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye, celebrated the Passover at Chabad of Poway Synagogue, near San Diego, with her husband, when authorities said 19-year-old shooter John T. Earnest had burst and opened fire with "an AR-type weapon".
Unaware that his wife had been fatally injured when she jumped in front of Brooklyn-born rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, saving her life, her husband-doctor rushed to help the victims of the bloodbath.
He began emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a woman – unaware that she was his wife, said at The San Diego Union-Tribune, a family friend, Dr. Roneet Lev.
The doctor fainted when he realized that the victim was his wife, Lev said.
Lev says that Gilbert-Kaye, the mother of a 22-year-old girl, also went to the synagogue to say Kaddish, a Jewish prayer for the dead, for her own recently deceased mother.
"The irony is that people will say it for her now," said Lev, director of emergency operations at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, to the newspaper.
"God has chosen to die to send a message because she is such an incredible person.
"He took it for a higher purpose to send this message to fight against anti-Semitism."
Earnest was arrested after the shooting, which also injured three other people, including the rabbi and an 8-year-old girl.
An online manifesto suggests that he was inspired by mass shooting in a mosque in New Zealand that killed 50 Muslims on March 15.
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