Officials name 11 killed; victims ages 54 to 97
After walking into Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue and killing 11 congregants, the authorities say, Robert Bowers turned his weapons on the police. Barricading himself on an upper floor, Mr. Bowers engaged in a desperate shootout that left him and four police officers wounded.
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Bowers, armed with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle stormed the Tree of Life synagogue here Saturday and shot worshipers during Shabbat services, killing 11 and wounding six in the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of the United States.
The mass shooting targeted members of a synagogue that is an anchor of Pittsburgh’s large and close-knit Jewish community,
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