When the shooter entered the Prime restaurant at the Sky Meadow Country Club Saturday night, Robert DeCesare reportedly stood up to protect his family from harm.

More details about Saturday’s mass shooting emerged in the wake of the horror that saw DeCesare killed and two other people suffer gunshot wounds. But the shooter, 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau, remains an enigma.

Robert DeCesare, Jr.

(Provided by the DeCesare family)

Charlene DeCesare told the Associated Press that Nadeau appeared to be targeting an employee when her husband moved to protect her and their daughter. Nadeau shot Decesare several times, according to the autopsy.

“My husband got caught in the fire trying to protect us,” she told the AP.

In the ensuing chaos, one patron hit Nadeau with a chair, and others acted to s

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