Massacre At Pittsburgh Synagogue -- News Updates October 27, 2018

Daily Mail: 'I'm going in': Synagogue shooting suspect, 46, posted chilling final message before the Trump-hating antisemite 'opened fire with an AR-15 on a BABY naming ceremony yelling "All Jews must die"', killing 11 and injuring six - including four cops

* Suspect Robert Bowers, 46, allegedly opened fire on the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue at around 10am on Saturday
* Suspect killed congregants in the main level who had gathered to observe the Sabbath then went downstairs
* In the basement, a second congregation had gathered. He shot them then fled to the third floor
* There, Bowers exchanged gunfire with police and injured two police officers and two SWAT team members
* He was eventually injured and surrendered to police by crawling to them before being taken to the hospital
* Bowers posted on the social network Gab an hour before the attack that he was 'going in'
* He regularly spewed his hatred of Jews and of President Trump on the website
* Trump first called the shooting a 'shame' and said the synagogue should have had its own security
* He then called it a 'twisted act of malice' in a later speech and called for the shooter to be executed quickly

The suspected gunman who opened fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday morning, killing at least 11 people and injuring several others, has been named as 46-year-old Robert Bowers, a Trump-hating antisemite who regularly complained on social media about the president and 'the infestation of Jews.'

Bowers allegedly opened fire at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh shortly before 10am. The synagogue was busier than usual with Sabbath services and because of a baby naming ceremony that had also been scheduled.

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Massacre At Pittsburgh Synagogue -- News Updates October 27, 2018

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Gunman targeting Jews kills 11 in Pittsburgh synagogue -- Reuters
Pittsburgh shooting: Multiple casualties at Squirrel Hill synagogue -- BBC
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: 11 killed and suspect taken into custody -- The Guardian
Synagogue gunman kills 11 in America's worst anti-Semitic attack -- AFP
Pittsburgh: 11 dead after shooting at synagogue -- DW
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect arrested after fatal attack on worshippers and police -- ABC News Online
Suspect in custody after deadly Pittsburgh synagogue shooting -- Al Jazeera
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Pittsburgh shooting: suspect railed against Jews and Muslims on site used by 'alt-right' -- The Guardian
Suspect in synagogue slayings spewed online hate for Jews -- AP
What we know about the US synagogue shooting suspect -- AFP
Who is Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect? -- Reuters
How Pittsburgh cops and SWAT team piled into synagogue while gunman unleashed his AR-15: Police chief reveals heroics of the four officers gunned down in shoot-out with crazed gun fanatic -- Daily Mail
‘One of the worst that I’ve seen’: Ex-FBI agent who leads Pittsburgh public safety department calls synagogue shooting scene 'horrific' and more distressing than a PLANE CRASH -- Daily Mail
Trump calls Pittsburgh synagogue attack ‘evil’ anti-Semitism -- AP
'America is stronger than the acts of a depraved bigot and antisemite': Ivanka condemns the mass shooting in Pittsburgh after Trump offered his condolences to the dead and injured -- Daily Mail
Israeli prime minister 'heartbroken' by Pittsburgh synagogue attack -- Reuters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expresses grief and solidarity with the US following 'horrendous antisemitic' synagogue attack -- Daily Mail
US synagogue suffers 20 minutes of terror -- AFP