Interviewed first on @cbsmornings, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker calls the weekend hostage taking "completely overwhelming" and that he's still processing the incident.
@CBSMornings The rabbi recounts for @cbsmornings first making a cup of tea for the hostage-taker, "an opportunity for me to talk to him. In that moment, I didn't hear anything suspicious. Some of his story didn't quite add up, so I was a little bit curious."
@CBSMornings Rabbi Cytron-Walker says he'd recently taken courses with federal and local law enforcement about how to deal with gun-related incidents. In the last hour of the ordeal, "It didn't look good, it didn't sound good. We were terrified."
@CBSMornings Towards the end, "when I saw an opportunity where he wasn't in a good position, I made sure that the two gentlemen who were still with me that they were ready to go. The exit wasn't too far away. I told them to go, I threw a chair at the gunman and I headed for the door."
@CBSMornings Rabbi Cytron-Walker says he's "definitely" going back to his congregation. "We've experienced great resilience. It won't necessarily be any easy thing, but it's a really important thing," he tells @cbsmornings.
MORE: Full video of the @CBSMornings interview with Rabbi Charlie Cytron Walker…
https://twitter.com/cbsmornings/status/1483059731531026437
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