Barber shot in Ma’ale Adumim says he was about to cut cop’s hair when attack began

A barber wounded in today’s attack in Ma’ale Adumim recounts being shot after he and a Border Police officer went looking for the terrorist.

Speaking to reporters from his hospital bed, Moshe Turgeman says he was cutting a customer’s hair when the officer — one of his regulars — came in.

“He just sat down. We heard gunfire and saw people running outside,” he recalls.

Turgeman says the two then went searching for the assailant, who was later identified as a resident of a nearby Palestinian town who worked at a local community center in the West Bank settlement.

The barber says he believes the two passed by the gunman without realizing it was him, noting the fluorescent vest he was wearing.

Turgeman says people then yelled from nearby buildings that the man in the vest was the attacker, leading them to double back after him.

“He shot me, he succeeded in hitting me in the hand,” Turgeman says, “and [shot] another guy near me in the leg.”

“The heroic Border Police officer just took him out in a few seconds. We got out miraculously,” he adds.