10 dead in attack on Pittsburgh synagogue

A gunman burst into a synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire on Saturday morning services, resulting in multiple fatalities and six injuries, including four police officers, authorities said. At least 10 people have been killed, according to the Associated Press.“It’s a very horrific crime scene. It’s one of the worst that I’ve seen,” Wendell Hissrich, the Pittsburgh public safety director, told reporters at the scene of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood.

The suspected gunman was taken into custody. Law enforcement officials identified him as Robert Bowers, 46, who had apparently posted virulently anti-Semitic comments on social media. Because the shootings are being treated as a federal hate crime, the FBI quickly took charge of the investigation with local officials, authorities said,

Police sources told a local TV reporter that the gunman walked in to the building and yelled, “All Jews must die.”

Police said Bowers was armed with an AK-47 rifle and two pistols, and that he fired at the first officers who arrived on the scene.