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Injured including four officers. he said three people were in critical condition. at this point, it is being investigated as a hate crime, a federal violation if only because we understand this shooter was saying some anti-semitic remarks while this shooting was going on. which happened, i should say, during a service, while that service was occurring. the past president of the tree of life synagogue, saying an estimated, maybe 90 to 100 people were present in the synagogue at the time of the shooting. this alleged gunman has been identified. he saw a grimace of him on your screen. 46-year-old white male. i don t even want to dig fy him by saying his name but police are nooking into his history, especially his social media media profile and anti-semitic remarks. let s talk more about the social media history. one of the targets in his post is a jewish refugee agency. what do we know about what he said about them and about jews in those posts? an official was on just a little while ....
Just joining us now is josh campbell who used to be of course with the fbi. gentlemen, juliet, thanks for being with us this afternoon. shimon, let s start you with. you have been speaking with law enforcement sources all day. we have gotten his name. we have gotten his age. a photo. what more do we know about the profile of the shooter? so we know that as nick was saying, he was, this is clearly a hate crime, there was anti-semitic words that were uttered during the shooting and as police were trying to take him into custody, he was talking about jews and a hatred towards jews so clearly lots of evidence this is all motivated toward hate, hatred towards jus. the fbi now taking the lead, because it is now obviously a hate crime and upping it to a federal hate crime. the u.s. attorney has enough evidence already, they have already drawn up the charges, so we will see the federal criminal complaint filed against him. he is in the hospital, is what local police have said. it is possible ....
Of the families of those who were murdered and praying for the quick recovero of those who were injured. i m sure the law enforcement agencies and the legal authorities in the u.s. will investigate the event thoroughly and justice will be served on this despicable murder. we heard that from many leaders here, as they try to cross the bridge and try to help the pittsburgh community as well as the larger jewish american community as it tries to cope with this and as it tries to recover from. this the minister of education, the minister of diaspora affairs is already on his way to pittsburgh to see what he can do, and what else the community can do and that is an outreach effort we expect to see grow here in the coming days here. alex? i was struck by a quote from jeff finklestein, the ceo of the greater jewish federation of pittsburgh and everyone thinks of israel in situations like this and i took to mean that many in the jewish communities here think about going to israel, for secu ....
So prosecutors can always up the charges, in terms of terrorism, but it is clearly a hate crime, because the hate crime has to do with the target. in this case, of course, a religious ceremony at an orthodox jewish synagogue. just to put this in perspective as a nonjew, married to someone who is jewish and raising three jewish kid, the naming ceremony is the most intimate and joyful of ceremonies that you can imagine in the faith. it is crowded with lots of kids. explaining the jewish name, as well as the american or english name if there is one. and so the horror of this is amplified. it is much like one can imagine going into a wedding. this is the similarity. a couple of other things about what we know right now. this web site that a lot of people don t know about, gab, i m in communication with gab right now, gab has taken his postings offline and has offered them to the fbi and investigators. what we don t know is whether anything was done with his, in terms of action, by gab, to ....