{"id":45583,"date":"2018-10-27T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T01:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=45583"},"modified":"2018-10-27T21:36:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T03:36:46","slug":"justice-dept-files-29-charges-against-alleged-pittsburgh-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/justice-dept-files-29-charges-against-alleged-pittsburgh-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept. files 29 charges against alleged Pittsburgh shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday evening announced the filing of 29 criminal charges against Robert Bowers, the suspect in the shooting deaths of 11 adults and the injuries of six others at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A judge signed an order alleging various violence and firearms offenses, which establish him as having committed a hate crime. The counts against Bowers as stated in the complaint charge him with 11 counts of obstruction of exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, 11 counts of the use of a firearm to commit murder during in relation to a crime of violence, four counts of obstruction of exercise of religious beliefs resulting in bodily injury, three counts of the use or discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Bowers remains in custody receiving treatment at a local hospital from injuries he sustained in a shootout with police and SWAT team members dispatched to the scene at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the largely Jewish section of Squirrel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Bowers could be arraigned as early as Monday, but authorities noted his injuries may prevent him from appearing in court for several days more.<\/p>\n<p>The Tree of Life Synagogue, derives its name from <em>Proverbs<\/em> 3:17-18, the passage that includes the Hebrew phrase<em> etz chaim<\/em>, or &#8220;tree of life&#8221; used in describing the Jewish Torah: <span class=\"st\">\u201c<em>It is a tree of life<\/em> <em>to all who grasp it, and whoever holds on to it is happy; its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all it paths are peace<\/em>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Justice%20Dept.%20files%2029%20charges%20against%20alleged%20Pittsburgh%20shooter\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[8790,8795,8788,3621,9694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45584,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45583\/revisions\/45584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}