Bernice Ruth Rothenberg Simon, 84, and her husband of 62 years, Sylvan Simon, were killed during a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Saturday, October 27, 2018. The couple had been attending Shabbat morning services at the synagogue where they had been married decades earlier.

According to reports, a lone gunman entered the synagogue armed with a semi-automatic rifle and three pistols and opened fire, shouting antisemitic slurs. Bernice Simon placed the first 911 call from inside the synagogue to report that her husband had been shot; after the attacker shot Sylvan Simon and briefly left the chapel, he returned and shot Bernice while she was on the phone with 911 holding her dying husband. Eleven people in total were killed in the attack.

If anyone attended Tree of Life that morning or has information about the victims and what happened inside the chapel, please come forward with what was seen or heard.