The blast of a synagogue in Pittsburgh, the US, was the main motive behind the attack, which killed 11 people and wounded six others.
At about 10 am, Robert Bowers stormed the Temple of the Jewish "Tree of Life" while Jewish worshipers were performing a religious ceremony on the occasion of the birth of a child. He opened fire on those inside shouting "All Jews must die" in the most bloody anti-Semitic attack in history. United State.
The gunman exchanged fire with the police, four of whose members were wounded before he was also injured, arrested and taken to hospital for treatment.
Two hours before he stormed the temple during Sabbath prayers, Bowers attacked the Hebrew Association for the Assistance of Immigrants (HIAAS) on the GAP social networking site.
I can not sit and I see our people being slaughtered, "Bowers wrote on the site.
The GAP website said in a statement that once the suspect had written on the site, he took "prompt and proactive" action and immediately contacted law enforcement.
Previous accounts of the suspect on the GAP website, which he joined in January, showed that Powers appeared to be an angry and anti-Semitic person.
About a month ago Bowers published pictures of him practicing shooting and a set of three pistols he called his Glock family. The name Glock is a type of revolver.
The US authorities sent Bowers, 46, 29 federal charges, including 11 on obstruction of religious beliefs and 11 counts of using a firearm to commit murder, according to the Office of the Federal Department of Justice in the western Pennsylvania district of Pittsburgh. Sentence to death.
For his part, President Donald Trump ordered that from Saturday until Wednesday, flags were placed on official, government and military buildings inside and outside the United States to mourn the victims of the attack.
