An Army veteran, an off-duty Border Patrol officer and an Israeli war veteran are credited with coming to the rescue in Saturdays deadly shooting inside a California synagogue that left one woman dead and three others injured.

The three men were attending services inside the Chabad of Poway when authorities say 19-year-old John Earnest, armed with a rifle, entered the lobby and opened fire, fatally shooting 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye in front of her husband and daughter.

I turned around and Im face-to-face with this murderer terrorist who was holding a rifle and looking straight at me, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein recalled on NBCs Today show. And then as soon as he saw me, he started to shoot toward me, and thats when I put my hands up and then my fingers got blown away.