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		</div><h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>California doctor on an offroading trip with his 15-year-old son wa shot and killed in front of his son in an unprovoked attack on July 3</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>After he was hit, Dr Ari Gershman managed to stop the Jeep he&#8217;d bought a day earlier enabling his teen son Jack to flee into the forest</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>Gershman, a 45-year-old Danville based physician died at the scene</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>Jack Gershman hiked an hour uphill before he could find reception and call 911 with only one percent battery power left on his cell phone</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>After contacting his mother, the teen then hid in Sierra Nevada forest before he was rescued on Memorial Day</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>Gunman John Thomas Conway, 40, of Oroville, California, was identified by Sierra County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Wednesday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>Conway is accused of fatally shooting Dr Ari Gershman, who was off-roading with his son, Jack, near Downieville, California on Friday </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>Authorities said Conway shot two other people earlier that Friday, both were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #544242;"><strong>The 15-year-old had been alone in the forest for more than 30 hours before he was found in good condition on Saturday </strong></span></h6>
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-350568" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/John-Thomas-Conway-1-1.jpg" alt="John Thomas Conway 1" width="591" height="762" /><br />
John Thomas Conway, [photo], of Oroville, California, was identified by Sierra County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Wednesday as the man who fatally shot Dr, Ari Gershman in the Tahoe National Forest on July 3 </strong></h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">A gunman who fatally shot a California doctor in front of his 15-year-old son in Sierra Nevada, after opening fire on two other victims in a &#8216;random act of violence&#8217; over the weekend, was identified by authorities on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">John Thomas Conway, 40, of Oroville, California, was arrested on Independence Day following an hours-long search through the forest that resulted in an officer-involved shooting, the Sierra County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<br />
Officials from at least six different law enforcement agencies embarked on a massive manhunt for the suspect after two people, who were not named, were shot in the Poker Flat area, and another, Dr Ari Gershman, was killed in nearby Downieville, on Friday.<br />
Gershman, a doctor of internal medicine based in Danville, California, had been off-roading in his Jeep with his son Jack, 15, in Tahoe National Forest, when they stopped on a remote road to ask Conway for directions.<br />
The gunman, who was driving an ATV, allegedly open fire &#8216;out of nowhere&#8217;, hitting Gershman, who immediately collapsed and died at the scene.</p>
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-350557" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ari-Gershman-and-his-family-2.jpg" alt="Ari Gershman and his family 2" width="940" height="588" />Father-of-three Gershman seen [with his wife Paige and their children], was traveling with his son, Jack in Tahoe National Park on July 3 when he was killed. He was shot to death while on an off-roading trip with his son. </strong><strong>The killer has been identified as John Thomas Conway of Oroville, California</strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Father-of-three Gershman seen, was traveling with his son, Jack in Tahoe National Park when he was shot.<br />
The 15-year-old boy fled into the woods and was finally able to get through to rescuers with just 1% battery power on his phone before he spent more than 30 hours in a Sierra Nevada forest in flight from the shooter. Rescue finally came on Memorial Day.</span></p>
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<h6><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350541" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ari-Gershman-3.jpg" alt="Ari Gershman 3" width="668" height="961" /></span>John Thomas Conway allegedly shot and killed Dr Ari Gershman [photo],&#8217;an avid bicyclist, a vegetarian, an outdoorsman, an internal medicine doctor,&#8217; on a remote road in Sierra Nevada, California on Friday </strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">After his father was shot, Jack Gershman reportedly then fled into the forest to take shelter and was forced to survive alone 30 hours before he was rescuers found him.<br />
Authorities said they located Jack, who was able to call 911 after hiking to find cellphone reception, despite him traveling a &#8216;considerable distance.&#8217;<br />
&#8216;Even though the juvenile had fled the shooting and spent the night alone in the forest, he was in good physical condition and did not require medical attention,&#8217; officials said in a press release.<br />
&#8216;After giving him some food and water, officers transported him to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office, where he was reunited with his mother.&#8217;<br />
Hours later, authorities located Conway after he failed to stop at a checkpoint on Saddleback Road and allegedly tried to run over two wildlife officers.<br />
A third officer, who was down the road, attempted to block his vehicle as he drove away, resulting in a collision.<br />
Officers then opened fire on the gunman and deployed a K-9, before taking Conway into custody, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<br />
Authorities said none of Conway&#8217;s victims were known to him and the Sierra County District Attorney plans to announce charges on the suspect &#8216;soon.&#8217;</p>
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-350544" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jack-Gershman-center-with-hs-younger-brother-and-sister-1.jpg" alt="Jack Gershman [center], with hs younger brother and sister 1" width="695" height="633" />Gersham&#8217;s second son Jack seen [right] with his brother Evan, 16, and 10-year-old sister Maci, allegedly called 911. He then called his mother, Paige to report: &#8216;Dad&#8217;s been shot and I think he&#8217;s dead and I&#8217;m running away, uphill and I don&#8217;t know where I am&#8217;</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">According to a family member, Jack Gershman called 911 before calling his mother, Paige around 5.30pm on Friday. During the call, the teenager told his mother: &#8216;Dad&#8217;s been shot and I think he&#8217;s dead and I&#8217;m running away, uphill and I don&#8217;t know where I am&#8217;.<br />
Gershman and his son were attacked near Downieville, California &#8211; a remote area 80 miles northeast of Sacramento and 55 miles west of Reno, Nevada.<br />
According to the <a class="class" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Dad-s-been-shot-Harrowing-story-of-a-15392428.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, Ari Gershman took his 15-year-old Jack on a popular off-roading trail near Poker Flat in the Sierra on Friday, excited to drive the red Jeep Rubicon he had bought the day before.<br />
Describing the unprovoked attack, Ari&#8217;s cousin, Marlo Meyes-Barer <a class="class" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Dad-s-been-shot-Harrowing-story-of-a-15392428.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Said</a>: “The man out of nowhere started shooting at the Jeep,” Meyers-Barer wrote. Adding that<br />
“Ari stepped on the gas to get out of harms way, but one of the shots ripped through the seat and hit him. He was able to get the Jeep stopped so Jack was able to run into the forest to hide”.</span></div>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-350546" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ari-Gershman-and-wife-Paige-Gersham-1.jpg" alt="Ari Gershman and wife Paige Gersham 1" width="884" height="590" /> <strong>In addition to his son Jack, Gershman is survived by wife Paige [photo], as well as their two other children, Evan, 16, and 10-year-old Maci. Paige Gershman is currently undergoing chemotherapy for cancer</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Meyers-Barer said Gershman collapsed and died from the gunshot wound at the scene.<br />
Just before the shooting, Gershman&#8217;s wife, Paige, who was diagnosed six weeks ago with Hodgkin&#8217;s Lymphoma, had sent a text to her husband letting him know that she received promising test results.<br />
She had previously been tracking their progress on the trip using her phone.<br />
Because her husband is a doctor, Paige said she thought it was odd he didn&#8217;t respond.<br />
According to Meyes-Barer, Jack called 911 before calling his mother, around 5.30pm.<br />
During the call, Jack told his mother: &#8216;Dad&#8217;s been shot and I think he&#8217;s dead and I&#8217;m running away, uphill and I don&#8217;t know where I am.&#8217;<br />
Ari Gershman, a 45-year-old doctor based in Danville <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Danville-man-shot-to-death-during-four-wheeling-15389994.php">died at the scene</a> and his son Jack spent 30 hours alone and lost in the dense woods, drinking from a stream, wearing only shorts and a T-shirt and covered in bug bites and scratches, before he was rescued.<br />
The alleged gunman was arrested shortly after Jack was found, following a police chase on his ATV. Moments before shooting Gershman, the man also allegedly shot and injured two other people nearby who survived, according to the Sheriff’s Office.</p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-350548" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tahoe-National-ForestTahoe-National-Forest-California-1.jpg" alt="Tahoe National ForestTahoe National Forest, California 1" width="694" height="448" />Jack Gershman told authorities that it had taken him an hour climbing uphill before he found signal for his cell phone, which was only at 1 per cent battery power at the time he could make the call. He was found in good physical condition on Memorial Day 4 in Tahoe National Forest [photo]</h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Jack then explained that it had taken him an hour to climb to find signal for his cell phone, which was only at one per cent battery power when he made the call.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Meyes-Barer and Paige drove four hours to Downieville, and on the way received messages Jack had tried to send earlier in the day.<br />
Meyers-Barer said: &#8216;He said he was sorry and to tell his brother and sister he loved them. And he loved his mom. It was gut-wrenching.&#8217;<br />
When they arrived, deputies at a sheriff&#8217;s office broke the news that Gershman had been found dead and Jack was still missing.<br />
Rescuers contacted network provider AT&;T to help track pings on Jack&#8217;s phone despite it being out of battery power.</p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-350545" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jack-Gershman-center-with-hs-younger-brother-and-sister-2.jpg" alt="Jack Gershman [center], with hs younger brother and sister 2" width="880" height="587" />Jack seen,[photo], with his siblings, was offroading with his dad when the shooting happened. After his dad died from a bullet he fled and called police to say he was lost, according to the Sierra County Sheriff&#8217;s Office</h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">It took about five hours for authorities to extricate Jack from the forest and he was covered in bug bites because he was only wearing shorts and t-shirt.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">He told authorities that he was able to get water from a stream he came across while walking in the forest.<br />
There was no immediate word on a motive for the shooting of Gershman.<br />
Gershman &#8216;was an avid bicyclist, a vegetarian, an outdoorsman, an internal medicine doctor, a devoted and loving father and fantastic friend that was willing to drop anything for his friends and family,&#8217; according to a <a class="class" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-gershman-family-fund" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">GoFundMe </a>page which is raising money for the family.<br />
&#8216;He was witty and wise. He died doing what he loved with his son in an area he had hoped to retire in one day.&#8217;<br />
In addition to his son, Gershman is survived by two other children, Evan, 16, and Maci, 10, and by his wife, Paige.<br />
Paige a speech and language therapist, is currently undergoing chemotherapy for the Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, according to the GoFundMe page. The crowd funding campaign so far, has raised $443,932 <span class="text-stat text-stat-title"> of $550,000 goal.</span></p>
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