By Loius Keene | Forward
Left: Guy Taieb, 73, outside the Pinto Center Friday morning. At right, his wounds from Thursday morning, when he was shot walking home from services. Graphic by Louis Keene. Photos by Louis Keene and courtesy of Guy Taieb.
LOS ANGELES — A day after he was shot walking home from morning prayers, Guy Taieb was back at services Friday morning.
“Why not?” Taieb, 73, said. “I am Jewish and I wanted to say, ‘Thank you, God.’ It’s normal for me.”
Taieb, wearing the same blue Calvin Klein jacket that he wore during the attack, said he emigrated from France about 15 years ago because antisemitism was rising there. Now it appears he fell victim to it in Los Angeles.
On consecutive mornings this week, men were struck in drive-by shootings after leaving services in Pico-Robertson, the neighborhood on the city’s Westside that is home to its largest Orthodox population. Neither was badly hurt, though Taieb had a pair of wounds on his arm to show for it — and some down feathers poking out of what he was now calling his lucky jacket.
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