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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. And we
all pray for the speedy recov
ery of the wounded.”
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