Moments later, Mapal, 25, was shot while hiding with him under a truck. Just before she was struck, she sent a terrified text to her sister:

“Don’t tell Mom, I’m scared. There’s a massacre. Bullets are hitting me in the head.”

Roei survived by playing dead for hours, only rescued when the army arrived, according to The Times of Israel.

Though he survived, the trauma stayed with him.

The pain Roei carried was almost unimaginable. And sadly, the weight of that day didn’t stop with Roei. His mother, devastated by Mapal’s death, took her own life just two weeks after the attack.