The suspect was identified by local authorities as Robert Bowers, a resident of Baldwin, Pennsylvania. He was taken into police custody after the shooting and sent to a hospital. Bowers was armed with an assault rifle and three handguns.
Bowers' Gab.com social media profile was registered in January 2018 under the handle of onedingo and the account's description was "jews are the children of satan. (john 8:44) --- --- the lord jesus christ is come in the flesh". The cover picture was a photo with the number 1488 — used by neo-Nazis and white supremacists to evoke David Lane's "Fourteen Words" slogan and the Nazi slogan Heil Hitler. Bowers had published one post that referenced the white genocide conspiracy theory. He also reposted content by other anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, and Holocaust-denying users, and criticized President Donald Trump for being a "globalist, not a nationalist" and for supposedly being controlled by Jews.
A month before the attack, Bowers posted photos showing the results of his target practice, and a photo of his three handguns, calling them his "glock family". In the post, he identified the .357-caliber handguns as Glock 31, Glock 32, and Glock 33.
Bowers reportedly made anti-Semitic posts directed at the HIAS National Refugee Shabbat in the weeks before the shooting.
Shortly before the attack, in an apparent reference to immigrants to the United States, Bowers posted on Gab that "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in".
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 27 2018, @11:44PM
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