SNN Global Update | Black Saturday: Mass Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 27, 2018.

I want all Jews to die - Robert Bowers, Pittsburgh gunman.

Dozens of people had arrived to the Tree of Life synagogue that morning to celebrate Shabbat services, for some it was their last. At the early hours of Saturday almost 10:00am, during prayers at the Tree of Life Synagogue a lone shooter (a suspected gunman,) Robert Bowers, after making his last social media post on a platform GAB, entered into the lobby of the synagogue and start shooting at worshippers.

Bowers posted constantly on the Gab platform his hate for the Jews and showcase his guns. Four hours before the shooting he posted about Trump. Minutes before storming inside the building, he logged onto Gab again and wrote to his followers.

"I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered," he wrote. "Screw your optics, I'm going in."- A report affirms.

Bowers used a Colt AR-15 rifle and three Glock handguns during the attack, police said.
The SWAT team who arrived at the scene were able to capture him after some gun shots exchange that occurred.
The suspect was in the process of leaving when he encountered a Pittsburgh police officer who "engaged him," Jones said. The officer was subsequently injured, and the suspect went back into the synagogue, where he hid from SWAT officers who arrived on the scene. In all, two police officers and two SWAT officers were wounded in the confrontation, Hissrich said. Three of them were shot, according to the city's public safety department.
The suspect suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was in fair condition at a hospital.

Robert Bowers, 46, of suburban Baldwin, surrendered to authorities after Saturday morning's shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue. He made anti-Semitic statements during the shooting and targeted Jews on social media, according to a federal law enforcement official.

Bowers is facing at least 29 federal charges, including 11 counts of obstruction of exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, plus 11 counts of using a firearm to commit murder. A conviction on any could be punishable by death, US Attorney Scott Brady said.

Pertaining to his shootout with police, Bowers also faces four counts of obstruction of exercise of religious beliefs resulting in bodily injury to a public safety officer, and three counts of use and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.

He was also charged with 11 state offenses, including attempted homicide and aggravated assault, a criminal complaint shows.

These are the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting.
Joyce Fienberg
Richard Gottfried
Rose Mallinger
Jerry Rabinowitz
Cecil and David Rosenthal (brothers)
Bernice and Sylvan Simon (married)
Daniel Stein
Melvin Wax
Irving Younger

Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that the shooting was a "terrible, terrible thing."

"If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him," Trump said before boarding a flight to Indianapolis.

President Donald Trump immediately took to his twitter to condemn this anti semitic attack on American Jews worshipping at the Tree of Life Synagogue Donald J. Trump, and also acknowledge the gallant efforts of the federal law enforcement officers who responded on time to save the situation.

(@realDonaldTrump) Tweeted:
As you know, earlier today there was a horrific shooting targeting and killing Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The shooter is in custody, and federal authorities have been dispatched to support state and local police...
Donald Trump

(@whitehouse) tweeted:
Just now: President Trump invited Rabbi Benjamin Sendrow to offer a prayer for the victims of the attack in Pittsburgh.
White House

(@realDonaldTrump) tweeted:
All of America is in mourning over the mass murder of Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. We pray for those who perished and their loved ones, and our hearts go out to the brave police officers who sustained serious injuries. This evil Anti-Semitic attack is an assault on humanity. It will take all of us working together to extract the poison of Anti-Semitism from our world. We must unite to conquer hate.

Pope Francis extended his condolences during a Sunday address, delivered in Italian from the window of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.

"May the most high welcome the deceased in his peace, comfort their families and sustain the injured," he said. "We are all wounded by this inhuman act of violence. May the Lord help us to end the outbreaks of hate that develop in our society, reinforcing a sense of humanity, respect for life, moral and civil values and a holy fear of God, who is love and father of all."

The Rabbinical Assembly said an act of hate against one community was an act of hate against all.

"This mass murder is a reminder that anti-Semitism is on the rise in America at a rate unprecedented in decades. This vicious hate crime, perpetrated against innocent people at prayer is but the latest in an escalating scourge of hate-based violence in America," it said in a statement.

The Orthodox Union and Rabbinical Council of America issued a joint statement expressing sympathy for the victims of the attack.

"This senseless act of anti-Semitic violence was not only an egregious attack on the Jewish community, but an attack on the very foundations of civil society and our collective democratic values," the Orthodox Union's executive vice president said.

SNN's Precious Diala Sparrow, CNN's Evan Perez, Keith Allen, Matthew Hilk, Darran Simon, AnneClaire Stapleton, Shimon Prokupecz, Delia Gallagher and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report.

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