Daghan Kozanoglu/Getty Images(ISTANBUL) — The American who was injured in the shooting rampage at an Istanbul nightclub told Turkish reporters Monday that he was part of a group of about nine people at a New Year’s Eve celebration at the club and that seven of them had been shot.
Jacob Raak, who spoke to reporters while on a gurney at an airport in Istanbul, also seemed to allude to the fact that Americans don’t live with a daily concern about terror attacks in the same way as people in Turkey.
“All I can say is it’s a massive tragedy. This is very unfortunate,” Raak told Turkish reporters. “I wake up in the United States, I eat breakfast. You guys wake up and have to think of this. It’s so, so sad.”
Raak, whose family had earlier identified him as a 35-year-old small business owner from Greenville, Delaware, according to ABC station WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, went to the Reina nightclub while on vacation in Turkey.
He was shot in the leg, his brother, Michael, told WPVI. The brother said the bullet may have struck Raak’s cellphone, possibly preventing a more serious injury.
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