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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018
Survivors recall deadly attack on Jews at synagogue
By MARYCLAIRE
DALE, CLAUDIA
LAUER and
ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — The
man accused in the Pittsburgh
synagogue massacre was
released from a hospital and
turned over to federal author-
ities for a court appearance
today on charges he killed 11
people in what is believed to
be the deadliest attack on Jews
in U.S. history.
Federal prosecutors set in
motion plans to seek the death
penalty against Robert Greg-
ory Bowers, 46, who was shot
and wounded in a gun battle
with police. Authorities say
he expressed hatred of Jews
during the rampage and later
told police that “I just want to
kill Jews” and that “all these
Jews need to die.”
The first funeral — for
Cecil Rosenthal and his
younger brother, David —
was set for Tuesday.
Survivors,
meanwhile,
began offering harrowing
accounts of the mass shooting
Saturday inside Tree of Life
Synagogue.
Barry Werber said he
found himself hiding in a dark
storage closet as the gunman
tore through the building and
opened fire.
“I don’t know why he
thinks the Jews are responsi-
ble for all the ills in the world,
but he’s not the first and he
won’t be the last,” Werber, 76,
said Sunday. “Unfortunately,
that’s our burden to bear. It
breaks my heart.”
The weekend massacre
— which took place 10 days
before the midterm elections
— heightened tensions around
the country, coming just a day
after the arrest of the Flor-
Robert Bowers
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
A person pauses in front of Stars of David with the names of those killed in a deadly
shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
ida man accused of sending a
wave of pipe bombs to critics
of President Donald Trump.
The mail bomb attacks and
the bloodshed in Pittsburgh
set off debate over whether
the corrosive political rheto-
ric in Washington and beyond
contributed to the violence.
The attack spurred a num-
ber of fundraising efforts.
A crowdfunding campaign
called Muslims Unite for
Pittsburgh Synagogue raised
more than $90,000 for sur-
vivors and families, while a
fundraiser led by a graduate
student in Washington had
taken in nearly $545,000 as of
Monday morning, with funds
to go to the congregation.
Bowers killed eight men
and three women before a tac-
tical police team tracked him
down and shot him, author-
ities said. Six other people
were wounded, including four
officers.
He apparently posted an
anti-Semitic message on a
social media account linked to
him just a few minutes before
the rampage. The Anti-Def-
amation League called it the
deadliest U.S. attack on Jews.
Three congregations were
conducting Sabbath services
in the synagogue when the
attack began just before 10
a.m. in the tree-lined residen-
tial neighborhood of Squirrel
Hill, about 10 minutes from
downtown Pittsburgh and the
hub of the city’s Jewish com-
munity .
Speaking at a vigil in Pitts-
burgh on Sunday night, Tree
of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers
said about a dozen people had
gathered in the main sanctu-
ary when Bowers walked in
and began shooting. Seven of
his congregants were killed,
he said.
“My holy place has been
defiled,” he said.
In the basement, four
members of New Light con-
gregation were just starting
to pray — with two others
in the kitchen — when they
heard crashing coming from
upstairs, looked out the door
and saw a body on the stair-
case, Werber recalled in an
interview.
Rabbi Jonathan Perlman
closed the door and pushed
them into a large supply
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closet, he said. As gunshots
echoed upstairs, Werber called
911 but was afraid to say any-
thing, for fear of making any
noise.
When the shots subsided,
he said, another congregant,
Melvin Wax, opened the door,
only to be shot.
“There were three shots,
and he falls back into the room
where we were,” Werber said.
“The gunman walks in.”
Apparently unable to see
Werber and the other congre-
gants in the darkness, Bowers
walked back out.
Werber called the gunman
“a maniac” and “a person who
has no control of his baser
instincts.”
The youngest of the 11
dead was 54, the oldest 97.
The toll included a husband
and wife, professors, dentists
and physicians.
Bowers shot his victims
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with an AR-15, used in many
of the nation’s mass shoot-
ings, and three handguns, all
of which he owned legally and
had a license to carry, accord-
ing to a law enforcement offi-
cial who wasn’t authorized
to discuss the investigation
and spoke on condition of
anonymity.
Bowers was a long-haul
trucker who worked for him-
self, U.S. Attorney Scott
Brady said. Little else was
known about the suspect,
who had no apparent criminal
record.
Bowers was charged with
11 state counts of criminal
homicide, six counts of aggra-
vated assault and 13 counts of
ethnic intimidation. He was
also charged in a 29-count fed-
eral criminal complaint that
included counts of obstruct-
ing the exercise of religious
beliefs resulting in death —
a federal hate crime — and
using a firearm to commit
murder.
Of the six survivors, four
remained in the hospital Sun-
day night, and two — includ-
ing a 40-year-old officer —
were in critical condition.
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