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Retired FBI firearms examiner Brett Mills said 67 cartridge casings found at the Tree of Life synagogue after an Oct. 27, 2018, attack there were fired from an AR-15 rifle that Robert Bowers carried into the building. They included five casings outside the large, plate-glass window in the front of

The second week of trial in the Squirrel Hill synagogue mass shooting featured testimony from 25 government witnesses, video from inside the synagogue as Pittsburgh SWAT officers cleared the building the morning of Oct. 27, 2018, and difficult-to-hear autopsy evidence for the 11 victims. In addition, one member of the jury,

During 2 weeks of harrowing testimony, defense has done little to dispute Robert Bowers' guilt, with its efforts likely aimed at helping him avoid a lethal injection

This is an ongoing article. Heritage will print articles as JTA reports them. Day 1: 911 dispatcher and rabbi take the stand PITTSBURGH (JTA) —

It is almost certain that the DNA found on two handguns, an AR-15 rifle and other items recovered from Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, belonged to Robert Bowers. FBI forensic examiner Marcy Plaza testified Thursday in federal court that it’s six septillion times more likely that

One by one, FBI Special Agent Samantha Bell paraded the guns past the jury. First, the Colt AR-15 rifle that Robert Bowers used to kill 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. With its strap hanging down, it looked like a weapon of war. Next

Professor Soraya Seedat is a distinguished professor and head of Stellenbosch University’s psychiatry department. She has penned several hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on psychiatric disorders, with a focus on PTSD and anxiety, particularly among children and in resour...

Pittsburgh SWAT Officer John Persin remembers the smell inside the Tree of Life synagogue’s Pervin Chapel on the morning of Oct. 27, 2018. Iron from the spilled blood. Persin was one of the first officers to enter the synagogue in response to an active shooter call there that morning. He

Critically wounded Pittsburgh SWAT Officer Timothy Matson had just been carried down the stairs by two of his colleagues when SWAT Medic Justin Sypolt began to evaluate him. They put the largest member of the SWAT team — previously described as 6-foot-5, 315 pounds — in the Tree of Life

The first week of the trial in the mass shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue included opening statements, testimony from 21 witnesses and very little cross- examination. They testified in the trial of Robert Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, who is accused of committing the Oct. 27, 2018, mass shooting at