Stuart Rubenstein News Today

The plot to shoot up a Manhattan synagogue was thwarted by a Jewish online security analyst, who came across chilling tweets foreshadowing the planned attack, and told the NY police department.

One of the alleged co-conspirators and Nazi fanatics that plotted to blow up a string of Manhattan synagogues has a grandfather, who is a Holocaust survivor.

NEW YORK -- One of the men busted in a plot to shoot up a city synagogue is Jewish and his grandfather survived the Holocaust, prosecutors and relatives said Sunday.

Matthew Mahrer, 22, conspired with Christopher Brown, also 22, to buy a gun and 'shoot up a synagogue and die,' according to a criminal complaint.