Eliahu Frishman, 33, of Far Rockaway, was walking to synagogue with his young 7-year-old son Saturday when he was held up by a man 20-year-old wearing a bandanna over his face who demanded money and then shot him in the chest.
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“I have nothing to give you,” witnesses overheard Frishman say.
With that, the attacker shot Frishman in the chest with a small-caliber gun, Hatzolah was requested, he underwent surgery at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, doctors said the metal will be lodged in his chest, but he is expected to completely recover.
What’s his condition now
not yet
did they get the guy?
how is he doing?
what the problem you have with him,don’t understand
Administrator: once again you are speaking yidish in english….
Its Far Rockaway, Man on his way to synagogue on shabbos, was hold up and shot.
עס האט אויסגעמוטען די לונגן און לעיבער מיט ווינציגער ווי א פארצענט פון א סענטימיטער.
זייט מתפלל אליהו בין הינדא רבקה.
By GEORGETT ROBERTS, JOHN DOYLE and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN Eliahu Frishman, 33, was blasted once in the chest and was in critical but stable condition after surgery at Jamaica Hospital, police and relatives said.
The father and his 7-year-old son were taking a shortcut through the PS 197 schoolyard at Beach 8th Street and Hicksville Road in Far Rockaway at around 8:30 a.m. when the suspect, wearing a dark bandanna over his face, jumped from behind a row of trash bins and pointed a gun at the pair.
“All of a sudden, he came to ask my father for money,” said the still-shaken youngster, who wears a yarmulke.
“My father said he didn’t have any,” explaining to the gunman that it was “shabbos.”
“Then [the gunman] shot him,” the youngster said, recalling the horror of watching his dad fall to the ground.
Barely conscious, Frishman had a good Samaritan whisk his son to safety at the temple, the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, located half a block away.
“How silly the man is; he should have known Jewish people don’t carry money on the Sabbath,” the boy said, pausing for a reassuring hug from his grandfather at the family home. “I hope my father is going to be all right.
“I don’t know why he had to do it to my father. I don’t know why he should rob people. He should know better,” he said.
The boy’s mom, Chaia, 32, said her son, who was not injured, kept holding his dad’s hand until help arrived.
“He saw the bloodstain on his father’s shirt. He was very upset. He didn’t cry, but his voice cracked,” she said.
“He was scared. I kept telling him he did the right thing; he stayed by his father’s side.”
The masked gunman, wearing a red baseball cap, blue shirt and pants, escaped on foot.
“I kept him [Frishman] alert,” said the Samaritan, who identified himself as Rabbi W.
“There was blood coming out of his shirt, and he was leaning against the fence. He told me that he didn’t have any [money] and he got shot with a BB gun.”
Several congregants, who are also volunteer paramedics, helped the victim until an ambulance arrived.
Frishman’s wife was in a state of shock yesterday as she discussed the horrible attack.
“I never believed in a hundred years that my husband would be shot,” she said. “He was born and raised here. We know everybody here. Everybody gets along.
“My heart dropped. My husband was not home. My son was not home. I thought, ‘God forbid, the worst had happened.’ “
It happend on beach 8th right off hicksville across the street from yeshiva far rockaway he was on the way to shul shabas morning with his 7 year old son and the guy jumped out from behind a dumpster CRAZY!!!!!
where in FR did this happen?
He lives 5 min from me from me and the shooting took place down the block from me its a crazy thing. i hear he is doing better i will keep you all posted
whats his name for tehillim? how is he doing?