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This is an ongoing article. Heritage will print articles as JTA reports them. Day 1: 911 dispatcher and rabbi take the stand PITTSBURGH (JTA) —

Pittsburgh SWAT Officer John Persin remembers the smell inside the Tree of Life synagogue’s Pervin Chapel on the morning of Oct. 27, 2018. Iron from the spilled blood. Persin was one of the first officers to enter the synagogue in response to an active shooter call there that morning. He

Critically wounded Pittsburgh SWAT Officer Timothy Matson had just been carried down the stairs by two of his colleagues when SWAT Medic Justin Sypolt began to evaluate him. They put the largest member of the SWAT team — previously described as 6-foot-5, 315 pounds — in the Tree of Life

The first week of the trial in the mass shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue included opening statements, testimony from 21 witnesses and very little cross- examination. They testified in the trial of Robert Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, who is accused of committing the Oct. 27, 2018, mass shooting at

"I thought about the history of my people, how we’ve been persecuted and hunted and slaughtered for centuries," the rabbi said in his testimony.