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 we...