David Freeman, a 56-year-old Petah Tikva resident who participated in neutralizing the terrorist in yesterday’s attack in Tel Aviv, told “Maariv” today (Friday) about the dramatic moments of the pursuit and elimination of the terrorist: “Everything happened within seconds. I heard gunshots, I got out of the car and chased after the terrorist, I shot In it three balls from a distance of two meters.”
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At the beginning, Freeman told how he arrived at the scene of the attack. “I went to pick up my daughter who celebrated her 32nd birthday, she lives on Shatz Street corner Dizengoff and I went with my partner to pick her up. We were sitting in the car, I was waiting for her to get out and then we heard shots,” said Freeman. “I sent my partner to the daughter’s apartment, fired my gun and ran in the direction of the shots.”
Freeman added and said that “even in the army I was in a combat unit and I volunteer at the Petah Tikva police and there before each shift the shift commander briefs us to be ready for any scenario, to be alert and to be alert.”
He continued and described: “As soon as I got out of the car and realized it was a terrorist attack, I just ran, I saw the wounded on the floor receiving treatment from civilians and I ran towards the terrorist. I saw two policemen on top of civilians and the terrorist hiding inside and joined them.”
“At that time, the terrorist fired in our direction in the alley, a single shot each time. After 3 minutes, a car arrived and another policeman joined and suddenly the terrorist decided to run outside, and as he came out he received three bullets from me from the policeman three more and fell on the floor. He was two or three meters away, I saw the bullets hit.”
He added: “Everything happened in a matter of seconds, as soon as he fell he fell on his stomach with his hand from below, probably holding the gun, and he moved and one of the police officers gave him a kill certificate so he wouldn’t take his weapon out on us.”
Freeman tried to explain the feelings at the time of the incident: “At that time it’s just to run and save so the terrorist doesn’t hurt other people, at that moment you don’t think if you’ll get hurt, it’s not that I was scared or my hands were shaking or anything, I was prepared for such a scenario, I received proper training, I was ready and ran towards finding the terrorist who would not harm innocent people,” he said.
“My daughter said ‘Dad you are a hero, I want you to be recognized'”
He went on to tell about the chain of events after the terrorist was killed: “As soon as he fell and they killed him, they came full of vehicles, I immediately took reverse gear, I didn’t want to disturb the security forces when I was a civilian, I went back to my daughter’s car and came to get in the car to drive and then my daughter said no father you are a hero I want Let them get to know you, and then as soon as she turned to the first journalist like this wave non-stop until the morning I’m just being interviewed.”
“I called my commander at the station and told him the story. They told me to go to one of the officers and tell them what happened, and that’s what I did. I went to two officers, showed them the volunteer policeman’s card, gave them a phone number, they said, well done, and shook my hands.” He added: “I was not contacted by the Shin Bet and such. I shot 3 bullets and after that they told me enough and I took a step back and did not interfere.”
In conclusion, Freeman said that on a daily basis he has a shop for housewares and scented candles in Petah Tikva, in Habovi Zion.