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This is the terrifying moment a gunman opened fire inside a San Francisco synagogue as onlookers watch on while remaining bizarrely calm.
The attack erupted Wednesday night at the Schneerson Center, a synagogue predominantly attended by Russian-speaking Jews. Police tracked down and arrested the assailant two days later, named as 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin.
Shocking footage of the shooting shows Mishin brandishing the gun after reportedly telling one of the men inside 'I'm going to show you something.' Nobody was harmed in the attack on the synagogue, and it is believed that Mishin may have been using blanks.
Police said the disturbing incident came a day after Mishin wielded the gun in a movie theater several blocks away from the synagogue before he fled the scene.
Disturbing posts to social media believed to be from Mishin also suggest the gunman may have far-right or neo-Nazi affiliations.
Shocking footage has revealed the moment a gunman walked into a San Francisco synagogue before firing a gun over their heads
The assailant, named as Dmitri Mishin, 51, is seen opening fire around the synagogue while the congregants appear oddly calm
Despite the chaos inside, which is believed may have been carried out with blanks, one of those inside is seen brushing past the gunman to take a call outside
Chilling surveillance footage of the attack shows the 51-year-old assailant initially calmly walking into the synagogue as congregants eat together around a table.
He then briefly speaks to those inside, before brandishing the gun and waving it in front of the members, which bizarrely doesn't spark any form of reaction.
After struggling to ready the weapon, Mishin fires several shots around the room while those sat around the table remain completely calm, with one of the men even brushing past Mishin as he takes a phone call outside.
Following the attack, Rabbi Alon Chanukov, the vice president of the synagogue, slammed the incident as a hate crime.
He told ABC7: 'Terrorism doesn't have to have killings. In my mind, what he did was he came, and he did a terrorist attack. He came to terrorize people.
'The action is terrifying. To have a stranger come in and start shooting in your place of worship, in you place where you should feel safe.'
Rabbi Alon Chanukov, the vice-president of the Schneerson Center, slammed the incident as a hate-crime as he says Mishin 'came to terrorize people'
The attack on the synagogue has been linked to an incident the day before, where a gunman believed to be Mishin, pictured, also brandished a firearm in a nearby movie theatre
Disturbing social media posts believed to be from Mishin suggest that the incident was a targeted attack, with the assailant posting several far-right or Nazi images,
