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FILE - In this June 14, 2019, file photo, Temel Atacocugu, a victim from the March 15, 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, leaves the Christchurch District Court in Christchurch, New Zealand. When the gunman walked into the Al Noor mosque, Atacocugu was kneeling for Friday prayers. He looked up into the man's face, thinking he was a police officer because of his paramilitary outfit. Time slowed. Temel saw a puff of smoke come from the raised gun, felt a bullet smash into his teeth, and thought: "Oh, my God, I'm dying." (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

FILE - In this June 14, 2019, file photo, Temel Atacocugu, a victim from the March 15, 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, leaves the Christchurch District Court in Christchurch, New Zealand. When the gunman walked into the Al Noor mosque, Atacocugu was kneeling for Friday prayers. He looked up into the man's face, thinking he was a police officer because of his paramilitary outfit. Time slowed. Temel saw a puff of smoke come from the raised gun, felt a bullet smash into hi…

March 14, 2020

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — When the gunman walked into the Al Noor mosque, Temel Atacocugu was kneeling for Friday prayers. He looked up into the man’s face, thinking he was a police officer because of his paramilitary outfit. Time slowed. Atacocugu saw a puff of smoke come from the raised gun, felt a bullet smash into his teeth, and thought, “Oh, my God, I'm dying.”