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Victim Recalls(fntillnnfd From Pago Altremains in satisfactory condition at St. .nine. He Is a supervising custodian at Cal Slate. Koran, a gray-bearded man5ii»nke haltinclv about what hiLi* 1remembers of Monday’s tragedy. sometimes having difficulty describing his feelings at thetime.I “1 came in about five minutes I late that morning and after I going to my office. I went out to I talk to one of the women in tlie I library.’* he said, t saw a I fellow there — I didn’t recog-I nize him — and he had what I looked to be a rifle. I couldn't I believe it was. He was talking I to Steve Becker and anotherMperson.“I went over to taP* to anoth-fc. er woman and I said. ‘CouldmiI that be a rifle *hat guy’s hold-I ine?’ and she said she thought it m|w..s an umbrella. I didn't want to interfere if everything was all right. I Just knew there was]vme kind of law about camthei wa tra kning guns m puotie places.Koran said be turned back to S*oak to the woman again and all of a sudden, heord shots. ,in*1ofukl hior■ ■“He pointed it direc’ly at, 1 think, Hoffman, and shot Then I heard another shot. 1 don't know if it hit Becker or not. 1 ^ just knew T had to go over to help Steve.'’ ,lftsn;It looked like Becker was m( trying to get the rifle a'vay!at from the gunman, Keran said. ^ “So 1 went over to help. All I ^ could think about was that .Steve had made the effort and 1had to help him. I thought the two of us could get the gunaway.”I Helping Becker almost cost Keran his life. Other employes fled or hid, according to wit-ta th I ,th1stnesses.“I kept trying to get the rifleaway.* and he was stronger than frth1 was,” Keran said. “I kept hoping someone would come up behind me and help. Finally, the rifle fell on the floor and I fell on it. I was lying on the floor trying to get up when he somehow got the girt back and shot me Doint-blank.”blahialhlt;hKeran said at that point he wasn't sure if he’d been hit before or if this was the first] e time. He’d already heard so t]many shots. | bAllaway. Keran said, seemedW “wild, with his hair messed up j ^ and he was grunting. 1 realhIhad a terrible struggle with;v..mhim” ItWhen lie realized he'd beencshot, Keran got up from thejj floor and staggered to a nearby office. “I looked around andj^ didn't see him. so I went intosMrs. Beth West's office and,^ osed and locked the door so IIMBcould get out of his way. I sawj^mv blood and I knew how bad II was bleeding so I dialedonerator to tell her I’d beenI and needed an ambulance.”■ Keran was surprised when y the operator told him they I would send an ambulance as I soon as thev could but tliere hadIybeen other emergencies.“1 thought I’d been hit several time and I was getting weak but I never completely lost consciousness,” he recalled. “Then I became afraid that the ambul-I ance people wouldn't find me in I the office, so I looked out the I door, saw no trace of him, tried I to walk outside and then I fellI down.”I That's all Keran remembers. I “It wasn’t until yesterday■ that I found out what happ I My last clear recollection I him aiming the gun point-I at me.”
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Orange County Register
Orange, California, US
Fri, Jul 16, 1976
Page 16
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