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Chicago Sun-Times
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Associated Press

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman will be sentenced to death for the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack

Robert Bowers blasted his way into Tree of Life on Oct. 27, 2018 with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons and killed 11 members of the Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life congregations, which shared the synagogue building. (Associated Press)

PITTSBURGH — The gunman who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers will be sentenced to death for perpetrating the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, a jury decided Wednesday.

Robert Bowers spewed hatred of Jews and espoused white supremacist beliefs online before methodically planning and carrying out the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, where members of three congregations had gathered for Sabbath worship and study. Bowers, a truck driver from suburban Baldwin, also wounded two worshippers and five responding police officers.

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