Ahmed El Refai told the Montreal Gazette that the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center opened up for reporters to show Canadians what had happened.

“The gunman came in by this entry, this is the entrance of the mosque, started shooting two people on the outside at the entrance and then he came in,” El Refai told reporters as he described the night of the shooting, according to the Gazette. “He started shooting, if you look, that’s the bathroom, he started shooting people here and then he entered that opening and started killing people.”

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The National Post also wrote that El Refai “guided journalists through the mosque saying it was their responsibility to show what happened."

“As I said, it's our responsibility, as administration, to show people, to show our community first, our Muslim community, and the Canadian community and Quebecois community what has happened in this crime scene,” he said in a video posted to the National Post site.

Charged in connection with the devastating mass shooting is Alexandre Bissonnette, a 27-year-old university student. Bissonnette faces six counts of first-degree murder in the attack, which also left several people injured and has been described as an act of terrorism by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that some members of the mosque on Wednesday stopped by to visit one another and “pay their respects.” Mosque administrators are expected to renovate the space in the wake of the shooting, the CBC reported.

“The mosque must reopen,” one man who attended prayers Wednesday, told the CBC. “We must say to terrorists that we're here and we won't go away. We don't want them to attain their goal: that we stop praying.”

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“Blood still smeared on the walls, pools of dried blood on the carpet,” she said in one tweet. “Graphic evidence of the massacre.”

Hwang said that she noticed “shoes of the dead and injured” were still the mosque, and that she saw men crying.

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“The trauma still fresh,” she wrote.

Members of the city's Muslim community walked over thick, crusts of blood dried into the carpet of their mosque on Wednesday as they returned to the scene of last weekend's carnage where six men were shot to death. Blood was everywhere: on the prayer carpet, the walls, tables and in footprints leading to the basement where people took refuge from the shooter.

The Sunday night shooting at the small mosque in the suburb of Sainte-Foy occurred as about 50 worshipers had competed evening prayer, and left the nation stunned.

“This was a group of innocents targeted for practicing their faith,” Trudeau told the House of Commons. “Make no mistake. This was a terrorist attack.”

Bissonnette, the suspect in the attack, was taken into custody 15 miles from the scene, after he called 911. He has been described in media reports as a nationalist and a supporter of Marine Le Pen, the French far-right politician, and President Trump.