{"id":89698,"date":"2025-09-21T11:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=89698"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:46:35","slug":"witness-suspect-shouted-free-palestine-during-nh-country-club-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/witness-suspect-shouted-free-palestine-during-nh-country-club-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness: Suspect shouted \u2018Free Palestine\u2019 during NH country club shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
By JNS STAFF<\/div>\n
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(JNS.org<\/span>) \u2013 <\/span>A suspect who allegedly opened fire at a Nashua, N.H., country club on Saturday shouted \u201cfree Palestine\u201d while carrying out the shooting, that killed one and wounded two, according to an eyewitness report.<\/div>\n
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Mugshot of Hunter Nadeau, the Sky Meadow Country Club suspect.(Nashua Police Department)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A witness told the local ABC<\/em> affiliate WMUR<\/em> that the shooter appeared to target his victim as he fired several shots in the restaurant of the Sky Meadow Country Club, which was also hosting a wedding at the time.<\/p>\n

Tom Bartelson, who was at the country club to attend his nephew\u2019s wedding ceremony on Saturday, told the outlet that he heard the suspect shout \u201cthe children are safe\u201d and \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities identified the suspect as Hunter Nadeau, 23, and said he had been arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder for knowingly shooting the victim, identified as Robert Steven DeCesare.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditional charges likely will be brought, including for the additional shooting victims,\u201d stated New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella and Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no known connection between Hunter Nadeau and Mr. DeCesare,\u201d according to the statement by the New Hampshire Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Leo Terrell, who leads the Trump administration\u2019s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, said in a response to the shooting that \u201cFree Palestine is a violent virus attempting to take over our country!<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many more times does this need to happen before the world wakes up?\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Robin Westman<\/a>, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot last month after killing two children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minn., wrote of murdering \u201cfilthy Zionist Jews\u201d to \u201cfree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Post<\/em> said that it translated writings by the shooter, 32, in the Cyrillic alphabet. \u201cIf I will carry out a racially motivated attack, it would be most likely against filthy Zionist jews,\u201d the shooter reportedly wrote in a journal that the paper said was \u201cfull of antisemitic slurs.\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 21, suspected gunman Elias Rodriguez<\/a>, 30, allegedly shouted \u201cfree Palestine\u201d after shooting two employees of the Israeli Embassy outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

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