New York Post

2 men are first vics to be ID’d

- Post Staff

Both were devout, and well-loved, 70-year-old men — but one would live and one would die.

The first details of the victims of Saturday’s shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue began to emerge by nightfall.

Relatives of new grandfathe­r Daniel Stein told KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh on Saturday night that they had not heard from him since before he attended Sabbath services that morning at Tree of Life Synagogue.

They believed he was among the 11 slain when a gunman burst into the temple, opening fire while screaming “All Jews must die!”

Wounded was Daniel Leger, who remained in critical condition at a local hospital with multiple gunshots to his torso.

He required two surgeries, and may require a third, said Dr. Don Yealy of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine.

Leger is married with two sons, the station reported.

His brother, Paul, told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that he had been scheduled to lead a service at the synagogue before the gunman opened fire.

Leger was among the six people injured in the shooting — two of them regular Pittsburgh cops and two of them SWAT team members.

The first responders were struck by bullets during a shootout with the gunman, identified by cops as Robert D. Bowers.

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