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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
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Location Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha,
5898 Wilkins Avenue,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates 40°26′37″N 79°55′17″W
Date October 27, 2018
9:54–10:00 a.m. (EDT)
Target Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue
Attack type
Mass shooting, hate crime
Weapons
Colt AR-15 SP1 semi-automatic rifle[1]
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Three Glock .357 SIG handguns
Deaths 11
Non-fatal injuries
7 (including the suspected perpetrator)
Suspected perpetrator
Robert Bowers
Motive Antisemitism, belief in the white genocide conspiracy theory
Charges 29 federal criminal counts;
36 state counts[2][3]
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A mass shooting occurred at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha[a] synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2018, while Shabbat morning services and a brit milah were being held. Eleven people were killed and six were injured. The sole suspect, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, was arrested and charged with 29 federal crimes and 36 state crimes.[2][3]
The Anti-Defamation League said it believes the shooting was "the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the history of the United States".[5]
Contents
1 Background
2 Incident
3 Victims
4 Suspect
5 Response
5.1 United States
5.2 International
5.3 Leading media and organizations
5.4 Local
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links
Background
Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha is a Conservative Jewish synagogue. The synagogue describes itself as a "traditional, progressive, and egalitarian congregation".[6]
It is located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Carnegie Mellon University and about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of downtown Pittsburgh.[6][7] The Squirrel Hill neighborhood is one of the largest predominantly Jewish neighborhoods in the United States and has historically been the center of Pittsburgh's Jewish community, with 26 percent of the city's Jewish population living in the area.[8][9][10]
Tree of Life, originally founded as an Orthodox Jewish congregation in 1864 in downtown Pittsburgh, merged in 2010 with the recently-founded Or L'Simcha.[11] The modern synagogue building, located at the intersection of Wilkins Avenue and Shady Avenue in Squirrel Hill, was built in 1953; it rents space to Dor Hadash[b] (a Reconstructionist congregation) and New Light (another Conservative congregation).[12][13][14] The synagogue's main sanctuary has a capacity of 1,250 people.[1