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examining a tip received moments before the attack. here's abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman. >> i turn around and i see the shooter standing there in position with a rifle, moving it towards me. >> reporter: it was the moment rabbi yisroel goldstein came face to face with evil. >> reporter: it wasn't just a shooting, it was a massacre. >> i felt like i was in a movie or in a dream or something. >> reporter: 8-year-old noya dehan saw her rabbi get shot. >> i wanted to dodge, to do something. and i -- the bullets started to fly. so i tried to cover myself. >> tried to block the bullets? >> tried to block the bell lets. don't know what to do. that's where my finger got shot out. >> two of his fingers are like off, they're off. and he's like gushing blood and stuff. >> i was centimeters away from death, literally.

>> reporter: her father feet away. >> i flipped theohnrnt, nursing, allegedly attacked the chabad of poway in the middle of sabbath services. three people were wounded but would survive. 60-year-old lori gilbert-kaye would not, shot just feet away from rabbi goldstein. >> he hates jews. this is pure anti-semitism. >> reporter: police calling this a hate crime, the latest in a rising number of attacks motivated by race or religion. and law enforcement today revealing it got a tip minutes before the attack but it was too late. >> getting another caller who stated theregoe n pe s the enu >> s inin peretz trying the

kids to safety. >> he shot me here. i didn't feel it a second. >> you got shot but didn't feel it? >> i take the girl, i take it girl one here, after i opened the door, i take all the kids and a small date, i opened the small gate, i tell them, all the kids, run. >> how many kids did you gather up and run with? >> all the kids. like 20. >> reporter: the ar-15 style rifle purchased just the day before. >> we're going to have two victims from gunshot wounds. >> reporter: with the gunman firing, oscar stewart didn't think, he just ran. >> take about two steps and i turn around and go the other way. i took off in a sprint as fast as i can go. i ran toward the lobby where the gunshots were coming from. the look on his face was one of dread as i'm coming at him. he drops his weapon. >> reporter: it's possible the gunman's weapon then malfunctioned. >> i yelled, i'm going to kill you. i chased him out. i chased him to his vehicle. he gets in the car, raises the

weapon. with all my force i hit the side of the car with all my might. >> reporter: stewart says at this point jonathan morales, an off-duty border patrol agent and congregant, also joined in. >> he comes out, i hear mill say, fall back, i have a gun. he lets off five rounds at the car that's still parked. at this point he ran out of ammunition. the car starts to go. we both take the license plate number down. >> reporter: the men ran back inside to survey the damage he'd done. the rabbi shot. congregant lori kaye lying on the floor. >> we proceed to start doing cpr on her. >> at what point did howard, lori's husband, turn up? >> howard's a physician. i jumped up and got the aed. he says, i'm not getting a pulse. he reaches over and looks at lori, and that's when he realized it was his wife. >> the whole time he's working on her, he didn't realize -- >> he didn't she was. he passes out, he paints. >> here i got howard laying on the floor. i worry. then hannah comes running out.

>> that is their daughter? >> the daughter, the only daughter. watching both of her parents down. >> reporter: their loss fully realized. a mile and a couple of minutes later, police stop the shooter. >> we're code 4 here at the scene of the vehicle, we got an ar-15 -- >> suspect pulled over, jumped out of the car with his hands up, was immediately taken into custody. >> reporter: for the other victims the scars still remain. >> he goes back here. it didn't go straight like that. it went like in like that. >> is there one image that you can't get out of your head? >> when he's looking at me. >> you made eye contact. >> looking at me. he went to shoot i my face. >> you can't forget? >> i try and forget, all the time trying. >> reporter: the suspect is being charged with one count of murder aggravated by a hate crime and three counts of attempted murder. in a statement the shooter's

family said that to our great shame he is now part of the history of evil that's been perpetrated on jewish people for centuries. our son's actions were informed by people we do not know and ideas we do not hold. they say he comes from a family that rejected hate. he was a straight-a student who lived at home. >> 2017, we saw the largest single-year increase of anti-sell mettism incidents across the country. this was the first time ever we saw anti-semitic incidents in all 50 states. investigators are still scouring the shooter's social media. it seems he was radicalized on the dark web. a man claiming to be the alleged shooter posted an open letter online on hn wishing death on all jews, writing that he wanted to kill as many as he could. >> the radicalization and recruitment that individuals go through absolutely has an online component. the sharing of a manifesto, the discourse with other individuals who may believe in a similar ideology. and unfortunately the offline

component, whether it's the acquisition of the weapon, the ammunition, and other components that played a part in this attack, are where this individual's warped ideology meet azriel-life act of terrorism. >> the statistics show us we have a societal failure with a rampant number of mass attacks. >> reporter: michael masters directs a homeland security initiative that focuses on safety in jewish-american communities. >> anything about this gunman's profile similar to other or previous attacks? >> i think we're still learning a lot about the individual. but from what we know, that he was able to purchase a firearm and move to an active attack so quickly, is a trend that we're increasingly seeing. >> reporter: in the past year this have been an increasing number of attacks on places of worship. just a week ago, bombs ripped through christian churches in sri lanka, killing over 250 people. on easter sunday. and last month a gunman attacking several mosques in christchurch, new zealand, killing 49 people.

the shooter in poway claimed to be inspired by that attack and blaged about setting fire to a mosque near san diego. and just six months ago at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh, 11 people were killed. >> both jews and muslims continue to be the highest numbers of religious groups that are the target of hate and violence, and this is really a troubling trend. >> we find ourselves very much in the same situation of needing to stand with each other against those who would consider us to be outliers. >> in the past two years, the resources devoted to preventing and intervening in the process of radicalization have been decimated, and that's going in the wrong direction. >> reporter: in poway, the fbi did receive a tip about the shooter just five minutes before he opened fire. but for lori gilbert-kaye, it would be too late. wh to synagogue to tohioung memorialize her mother.

she's one of those people you call at 2:00 in the morning, she will be there. >> reporter: tonight a synagogue torn apart by hate, now united by grief. >> so i have this. there's little -- there's a piece of bullet. >> reporter: for little noya, her scars, a reminder of what she and far too many children like her have endured. >> do you feel safe here, noya? >> well -- i don't really feel safe. because it's not the first and definitely not the last time this is going to happen. so now i just know to watch out and stuff, for dangerous things to happen. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm matt gutman in poway, california. >> we want to thank matt for that report. up next, charles manson and the women who loved him. what they have to say now. withs are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven?

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charismatic leader and his disciples engage in a ahead line-making, culture-shaking spasm of violence. where are they now? tonight a preview of "manson girls," an abc news primetime special with new insight from two women who while they never killed for manson were in his inner circle. >> he was a con. so he was very good at becoming what people needed. >> reporter: charles manson. his name synonymous with terror and violence. >> he robbed us from our parents. and he gave us back to ourselves. >> reporter: in 1969, the whole world came to know about the

manson family after a series of grisly murders committed by disciples of the notorious cult. >> i feel very honored to have met him. and i know how that sounds to people who think he's the epitome of evil. >> reporter: one of the most shocking evils, the night he directed his followers to target a beverly hills home. inside they murdered five people, including 26-year-old actress sharon tate, who was nearly nine months' pregnant. >> the stories that have come out about his ordering people to do things -- never ordered me. >> reporter: now a new documentary on abc takes us inside the lives of the so-called manson girls. in the words of two women with very different memories of manson. >> charlie was misunderstood. my name is lynnette fromme. was i in love with charlie? yeah. oh, yeah. i still am.

still am. i don't think you fall out of love. >> you know, i was abused. you know, i was neglected. i was abandoned. >> when bobby kennedy was assassinated in '68, i think it really changed the tenor of the '60s from a moment of hope and trying to change in a positive way to a darkness. a lot of people were so disillusioned, they dropped out and moved to communes. >> reporter: the manson family lived on one of those southern california communes. >> one day the couple that i had been living with said, hey, we want you to meet this groovy guy. charlie gets up out of the circle, he'd been in the circle playing the guitar. he gives me a big hug. oh, we're so happy to see you. i just felt, ah, someplace i belong, someplace somebody wants me. >> there was plenty of

interaction, there was plenty of lovemaking, there was plenty of dancing. we were always taking care of each other. >> reporter: diane lake, who was 14 when she joined, says manson exploited the women to further his personal ambition. >> charlie really was pimping us out. but it was in the name of, oh, freeing our sexual inhibition. >> there was definitely a turn for darker and frenetic energy. lots of new people. tex was kind of a drug dealer. >> reporter: manson's ambitions turned increasingly violent, believing a race war was coming and that the beatles were sending him secret directives. >> charlie was all over this white album. and "helter skelter." he played it backwards, he played it forwards. he was convinced that they were sending him a message. that we as a family should go hide out until this war was over.

>> so we were collecting dune buggies, parachutes, canvas, knives, everything that we might need to go to the desert. >> tonight the city of los angeles is uneasy. >> actress sharon tate and her four friends were murdered here in a rented home near bel air. >> reporter: the next night the group commits another murder, this time killing leno and rosemarie la bianca. >> tex came back and was a n in. were tate, la bianca murders. he slapped it and said, i did this, charlie told me to. what i remember most is they were almost proud what was they had done for chli devastating t people that i had loved could do this. that this -- it's not just talk. >> police believe the hippie clan is responsible for a total of 11 ritualistic murders. >> reporter: several members of the manson family are arrested,

including susan atkins. >> susan started telling her cellmate about charlie and her participation in these murders and why and all of that. and by december, the case was breaking open and they took all of us to testify before the grand jury. i'm a 16-year-old being interrogated, threatened with the gas chamber, and they committed me to 90 days at patton state hospital. the 90 days turned into nine months. it was a blessing. all the nurses became my moms. i got psychological counseling. i went to church. then my arresting officer took me in as his foster child. i had like a normal life. i had babysitting jobs. they were turning me into -- as the most viable witness that they could. >> squeaky fromme wasn't involved in the murders, but she was at the courthouse every day and was very, very dedicated.

>> diane lake and lynnette fromme were not part of the murders, although fromme would later go to jail for attempting to assassinate president gerald ford. >> i tell my story and tell my truth because i felt like enough time had gone by. i lost my husband almost five years ago now. and i trying to find myself. i feel very strongly that it's only by the grace of god that i was protected throughout this. and i was a victim. >> manson and his followers are sentenced to life in prison. they're also made into these very, very popular figures because the media was just all over this case. >> i didn't want my kids to find out from a newspaper, from the media. so we told them. my husband and i told our two oldest children. my son was in college. and he slept with a baseball bat

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finally tonight, remembering john singleton, the director, the pioneer, taken off life support today after suffering a major stroke last week. john singleton was a trail blazer. the writer and director was just 23 when he prompted a national conversation about race with his debut film "boys in the hood." >> we came in with a bcr cast, and a black neighborhood. and we was like a homecoming. >> reporter: singleton would become the first african-american nominated for an oscar for best director and

the youngest. >> american film is becoming more and more popular because it's become more american. it's become more multi ethnic. that's why i really love it. >> john singleton was 51, and he will be missed. we want to thank you for watching "nightline." have a good night. where the vinegar zings and the dijon zips knowing that our flavor dreams should always be giants but our footprints should not. kettle brand chips. no small flavors. no small potatoes.

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