Stephen Katz Quotes

"The doctors are positive, so that's reassuring. This is one of those tragic situations where someone is trying to do something good for somebody, and it turns against you."

"He's lying in the hospital, shot twice, fighting for his life. He would give the shirt off his back to help anybody. Our whole family is traumatized."

"There's been a long history to his behavior and I think this is something (Benayer) has most likely has been planning. They tried mediating and speaking to (Benayer) to no avail, and this is what he did on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. He came to the temple with a gun, called my brother-in-law out of the temple. My brother-in-law tried to talk it over once more, and his reply was to shoot him in the back ."

"It's taking the state police forever to run the check and get the information back to us."

"Ironically, we left South Africa to escape the violence over here."

"Justice indicated if the board developed and approved a plan similar to the one that was adopted that they wouldn't object."

"I was holding his hand. He asked me to get his prayer shawl. It was his father's. But we couldn't find it in the chaos."