Lory Gilbert Key (60) was murdered and 3 more were injured, including a rabbi and girl who left Sderot in Israel due to the rocket fire, when a gunman opened fire inside a Chabad synagogue outside of San Diego, California, during services Saturday morning, authorities said.
The victim arrived to the synagogue in order to say Kadish (memorial prayer) for her late mother.
A man named John Earnest was detained after manhunt.as the one behind the deadly shooting. Police said the 19-year-old from the city of San Diego is believed to have entered a Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, during services on the last day of Passover, opening fire with an AR-style assault weapon.
Earnest surrendered to police after leaving the synagogue, according to authorities.
A manifesto thought to have been posted online by the shooter is rife with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and white nationalist rhetoric.
In it, Earnest cites Brenton Tarrant, who killed 50 people in attacks on the two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand last month, as an inspiration, as well as Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people in an attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue on October 27, exactly six months ago.
The manifesto is in the same question and answer format as one posted by Tarrant.
Earnest also takes responsibility for an arson attack on a mosque in Escondido, California, after the Christchurch attack and indicates he began planning the Chabad shooting shortly after.
He says he does not support US President Donald Trump, whom he calls a Zionist, and repeatedly accuses Jews of being part of a global conspiracy to put down white Christians.
The letter was posted on the 8chan messaging board as well as on a document hosting site at about 9 a.m. Pacific Time, about two hours before the shooting at the Chabad center.
Authorities boosted patrols at places of worship as a precaution, police in Poway, California, said, exactly 6 months after a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue killed 11 people in the deadliest attack on Jews in US history.
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Photos: The scene, victim and killer
