Aneesa Kondokar knew the killer for years from attending the same services

Revealed: San Bernardino Survivor Who Was Shot At Point Blank Range Attended Mosque with Gunman

One of the victims recovering from Wednesday’s mass shooting knew the man shooting her at point blank range.

Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the gunman behind the San Bernardino shootings, and victim Anies Kondoker attended mosque together at the Islamic Center of Riverside for years, Dr. Mustafa Kuko tells PEOPLE.

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“This was a man she knew, a coworker, a Muslim like her and both of them, for a time, attended the same mosque,” says Dr. Kuko, the director of the Islamic Center.

In an interview with PEOPLE, Kondoker’s husband, Salihin Kondoker, said the pair never bumped into each other at the mosque, and that they interacted personally only one time: when she trained Farook for his job five years ago. “Whatever interaction my wife had with him was only work-related,” Salihin Kondoker says.

Farook joined the Islamic Center of Riverside in January 2012 and quickly became close with Dr. Kuko, who describes the newcomer as “a nice guy.”

“He was someone who who was a little withdrawn and not very social,” Dr. Kuko says. “But he was nice and peaceful, someone who was committed to his religion and came to worship with us regularly.”

On Wednesday, Kondoker was shot four times by Farook at point blank range and survived. She is currently recovering and is in good condition.

While Dr. Kuko hasn’t visited Kondoker in the hospital, he has been in regular contact with her husband who says she is upset but overall doing well.

“She is just like the rest of us, quite shocked,” Dr. Kuko tells PEOPLE.

The center’s director says the 28-year-old was always nice and while he wasn’t overtly social, he never got into an argument with anyone.

Farook would attend the morning and evening services at the center and would speak with Dr. Kuko in confidence regularly.

A year after joining the congregation, Farook told Dr. Kuko he had met someone, Tashfeen Malik, 27, and asked for his advice on marriage.

“He talked to me three or four times about her” the director remembers. “He wanted to get married and sought both my advice and blessing.”

Dr. Kuko recalls Farook bringing his mother to Saudi Arabia to meet his fianc . There they performed marriage rituals. Later, in the fall of 2013, Farook brought his new bride over and held a reception at the center.

Dr. Kuko says that even though the two celebrated their marriage at the center, the couple was rarely seen together. Farook continued to attend services but his wife would stay at home.

Farook was a member of the Center from 2012 to 2014, when he suddenly “disappeared.”

In January of 2014, Farook suddenly stopped attending service without warning. Months later, Dr. Kuko learned that he had moved towns and was at a different mosque.

Dr. Kuko says he doesn’t know about Farook’s alleged ties with Islamist extremists.

“He was devout but this is the work of a disturbed person,” he tells PEOPLE.

As for how the community is doing after the news of Farook and Kondoker, Dr. Kuko says that everyone is doing alright.

“I talked to the congregation last night and I told them that this is life and we have the good and the bad and the ups and downs,” Dr. Kuko says.