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Isn't many people that didn't that we love so. >> reporter: bacari says the multiple bullet fragments in his body will stay, too risky to remove and remains, confusion, the man he so closely knew did this turning to anger and fear. >> i believe every citizen here should be armed to defend themselves in the case of this happening. but that's not everybody else's belief. i couldn't have defended anybody from the position i was in even if i was armed but at least if they tried to come in and get us in the restroom, i would have had someway of maybe protecting the rest of us. >> kyung lah joins us...

The whole situation. he's upset about the fact the majority of the muslims, it's like they won't come out and do something about it. >> so do you think he talked to farook about that? >> he might have. >> and do you have any knowledge at all from anyone you've talked to what happened at the function yesterday with farook? >> no, i just -- i know that supposedly there was an argument and very easily could have been an argument with my husband. i wouldn't be surprised. >> county health employees who worked with the shooter for years say the attack came as a surprise to them. they say he was well...

>> and do you have any knowledge at all from anyone you've talked to what happened at the function yesterday with farook? >> no, i just -- i know that supposedly there was an argument and very easily could have been an argument with my husband. i wouldn't be surprised. >> county health employees who worked with farook for years say the attack came as a surprise to them. they say he was well liked, mild mannered. co-workers even threw him a baby shower. now they're shocked, angry and mourning. patrick bacari shared a cubicle with him for years and says his life may have been saved by a well-tim...

It, we're fearing for our lives, we're fearing for the muslim community. >> that was nbc's stephanie gosk reporting there. one of the survivors of the mass shooting sat feet away from the suspect for years. patrick bacari shared a cubicle with his co-worker and was se seated at the same banquet table when farook disappeared. he said he was in the bathroom when the violence began. >> i get ready to return, i hear explosions, the walls pummeling, i look back at the mirror, i see i'm bloody on my face. as i go to exit, not knowing what is going on, i could see the bullet holes higher on the wall,...