'I felt the bullet go into my arm'
SEATTLE -- When a bullet tore into Dayna Klein's body, all she could think about was saving her unborn baby.
Klein says she was four months pregnant when Naveed Haq pointed his gun at her during the July 2006 shooting at the Jewish Federation Center.
"And he shot me," she told the jurors during Haq's trial on Monday. "I felt the bullet go into my arm and I slid along the door and kind of crumpled to the ground. And there was a tremendous amount of blood everywhere."
Haq, 32, of Kennewick has been charged with murder and attempted murder for shooting six women and killing one of them. Victims and witnesses have said Haq was ranting against Israel and the Iraq war as he fired, hitting some people at their cubicles and killing Pamela Waechter as she fled down a stairwell.
Klein said Haq threatened to kill anyone who called 911, but she knew she had to make the call.
"He's standing in my door and he's holding me hostage, and I'm pregnant," she told the 911 operator two years ago.
Klein's brave act made her a target for the gunman's brutal hostility but also helped authorities stop the bloodshed.
"The perpetrator said to me because you're too f***in' stupid to listen to my instructions you are now my hostage," Klein told the jurors. "He pushed me down. I was kneeling and he pushed me down in the back."
But as she she talked with the 911 operator, Klein held out the phone to Haq and he took it. The operator eventually convinced him to give up.
"Yeah, I'm putting my gun down," Haq is heard telling the operator on a tape of the 911 call.
With Haq gone, Klein called 911 again. When officers came to get her and the others out, they found they could not use the main entrance.
"And we came to the top of the staircase, and lying backward and face up was my friend Pamela Wechter. And (she) had obviously been shot in the head and was dead at the top of the staircase," Klien said, fighting back tears.
Klein said she asked to stay with Pamela, but the officers took her outside for medical care.
Surgeons at Harborview Medical Center repaired her arm with a titanium plate, but she is permanently disabled. Klein's son was born six weeks early by emergency cesarean section and spent 12 days in the hospital before he was allowed to go home.
Haq pleaded not guilty to the charges by reason of insanity. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
Waechter, 58, was the director of the Jewish charity's annual fundraising campaign. The other victims were Klein, Layla Bush, Cheryl Stumbo, Christina Rexroad and Carol Goldman.
About a dozen Jewish Federation staff members are being given time off work to attend the trial.
Klein says she was four months pregnant when Naveed Haq pointed his gun at her during the July 2006 shooting at the Jewish Federation Center.
"And he shot me," she told the jurors during Haq's trial on Monday. "I felt the bullet go into my arm and I slid along the door and kind of crumpled to the ground. And there was a tremendous amount of blood everywhere."
Haq, 32, of Kennewick has been charged with murder and attempted murder for shooting six women and killing one of them. Victims and witnesses have said Haq was ranting against Israel and the Iraq war as he fired, hitting some people at their cubicles and killing Pamela Waechter as she fled down a stairwell.
Klein said Haq threatened to kill anyone who called 911, but she knew she had to make the call.
"He's standing in my door and he's holding me hostage, and I'm pregnant," she told the 911 operator two years ago.
Klein's brave act made her a target for the gunman's brutal hostility but also helped authorities stop the bloodshed.
"The perpetrator said to me because you're too f***in' stupid to listen to my instructions you are now my hostage," Klein told the jurors. "He pushed me down. I was kneeling and he pushed me down in the back."
But as she she talked with the 911 operator, Klein held out the phone to Haq and he took it. The operator eventually convinced him to give up.
"Yeah, I'm putting my gun down," Haq is heard telling the operator on a tape of the 911 call.
With Haq gone, Klein called 911 again. When officers came to get her and the others out, they found they could not use the main entrance.
"And we came to the top of the staircase, and lying backward and face up was my friend Pamela Wechter. And (she) had obviously been shot in the head and was dead at the top of the staircase," Klien said, fighting back tears.
Klein said she asked to stay with Pamela, but the officers took her outside for medical care.
Surgeons at Harborview Medical Center repaired her arm with a titanium plate, but she is permanently disabled. Klein's son was born six weeks early by emergency cesarean section and spent 12 days in the hospital before he was allowed to go home.
Haq pleaded not guilty to the charges by reason of insanity. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
Waechter, 58, was the director of the Jewish charity's annual fundraising campaign. The other victims were Klein, Layla Bush, Cheryl Stumbo, Christina Rexroad and Carol Goldman.
About a dozen Jewish Federation staff members are being given time off work to attend the trial.
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