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PITTSBURGH — Jurors found the man accused of shooting and killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue guilty on federal charges Friday. Robert Bowers faced 63 federal charges and the
The jury found Robert Bowers guilty on the first 11 charges: obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death.
On the morning of Oct. 27, 2018, the three congregations that met at the Tree of Life synagogue planned to focus on a lesson from the book of Genesis in the Torah — welcoming the stranger. As they prepared for that lesson, an imperative in the Jewish faith, a stranger
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,
The federal judge in the capital murder case against Robert Bowers for the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is telling lawyers she wants a list of pretrial motions and plans to reassess the status of the long delayed case in January.