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TODAYS TOP HEADLINES The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Sunday, October 28, 2018 3A Gunman attacks synagogue, kills 11 BY MARK SC0LF0R0 AND MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press PITTSBURGH - A gun man who’s believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in U.S. history. The 20-minute attack at Tree of Life Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighbor hood left six others wounded, including four police officers who dashed to the scene, authorities said. The suspect, Robert Bow ers, traded gunfire with police and was shot several times. Bowers, who was in fair condition at a hospital, was expected to face federal hate-crime charges. “Please know that justice in this case will be swift and it will be severe,” Scott Brady, the chief federal prosecu tor in western Pennsylvania, said at a late-afternoon news conference, characterizing the slaughter as a “terrible and unspeakable act of hate.” The mass shooting came amid a rash of high-profile attacks in an increasingly divided country, one day after a Florida man was arrested and charged with mailing a series of pipe bombs to prominent Demo crats and little more than a week before the midterm elections. The killings also imme diately reignited the long standing national debate about guns: President Don ald Trump said the outcome might have been different if the synagogue “had some kind of protection” from an armed guard, while Penn sylvania’s Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf noted that once again “dangerous weapons are putting our citizens in harm’s way.” Trump said he planned to travel to Pittsburgh, but offered no details. Authorities say that just before 10 a.m., Bower entered the large synagogue with an assault-style rifle and three handguns. Three separate congregations were conducting Sabbath services in different areas of MATT ROURKE I Associated Press People hold candles as they gather for a vigil in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Saturday, Oct. 27. Trump calls Pittsburgh synagogue shooting attack ‘evil’ anti-Semitism BY CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press MURPHYSBORO, Ill. - President Donald Trump mourned the dead and forcefully condemned anti-Semitism Sat urday after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead. But faced with another national tragedy, he could not long turn his focus away from the midterm elections or himself. Nine days from elections that will deter mine the control of Congress, Trump stuck to his plans to appear at an agricultural convention and a political rally. Through out the day, he expressed sorrow, called for justice and bemoaned hate, getting reg ular updates on the shooting. But he also campaigned for candidates, took shots at favorite Democratic targets House Minor ity Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Eliza beth Warren and made jokes about his hair. At a massive rally in southern Illinois for U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, Trump condemned the shooting as an “evil anti-Semitic attack.” But he said cancelling his appear ance would make “sick, demented people important.” He pledged to change his tone for the evening and did cool some of his most fiery rhetoric. Trump acknowledged the weight these moments carry, telling reporters that experiencing such events as president, “it’s a level of terribleness and horror that you can’t even believe. It’s hard to believe.” The White House said Trump was get ting regular briefings on the attack. He spoke with the governor of Pennsylvania and the mayor of Pittsburgh. He also spoke with his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who are Jewish. the large building, according to Michael Eisenberg, the immediate past president of the Tree of Life. The Penn sylvania attorney general’s office said it was told by vic tims that a brit milah — a rit ual circumcision ceremony at which a baby boy also receives his Hebrew name — was also taking place, though law enforcement officials later said no children were among the dead or wounded. “It is a very horrific crime scene,” said a visibly moved Wendell Hissrich, the Pitts burgh public safety director. “It’s one of the worst that I’ve seen.” The survivors included Daniel Leger, 70, a nurse and hospital chaplain who was in critical condition after under going surgery, his brother, Paul Leger, told the Pitts burgh Post-Gazette. Daniel Leger was scheduled to lead a service Saturday morning, he said. The mass shooting raised immediate alarm in Jew ish communities around the country. Authorities in New York City, Chicago and else where increased security at Jewish centers. Bob Jones, head of the FBI’s Pittsburgh office, said that worshippers “were brutally murdered by a gun man targeting them sim ply because of their faith,” though he cautioned the shooter’s full motive was not yet known. In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Ses sions said the Justice Depart ment would file hate crime and other charges against Bowers. Bowers, who had no apparent criminal record, expressed virulently anti- Semitic views on a social media site called Gab, according to an Associated Press review of an archived version of the posts made under his name. The cover photo for his account fea tured a neo-Nazi symbol, and his recent posts included a photo of a fiery oven like those used in Nazi concentra tion camps used to cremate Jews during World War II. Other posts referenced false conspiracy theories sug gesting the Holocaust — in which an estimated 6 million Jews perished — was a hoax. He wrote of a Jewish “infesta tion,” using a slur for Jews. Gab confirmed Bowers had a profile on its website, which is popular with far- right extremists. Before the shooting, the poster believed to be Bowers also wrote that “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaugh tered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” HIAS is a nonprofit group that helps refugees around the world find safety and freedom. The organization says it is guided by Jewish values and history. Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the Anti- Defamation League, said the group believes Saturday’s attack was the deadliest on the Jewish community in U.S. history. “Our hearts break for the families of those killed and injured at the Tree of Life Synagogue, and for the entire Jewish community of Pitts burgh,” Greenblatt said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “heartbroken and appalled” by the attack. “The entire people of Israel grieve with the fami lies of the dead,” Netanyahu said. “We stand together with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh. We stand together with the American people in the face of this horrendous anti-Semitic brutality. 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