WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Justice Secretary Jeff Sessions said his ministry would be charged with a hate crime and other charges for the gunman who killed 11 worshipers and wounded six others at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sessions said in a statement that the charges could lead to the death penalty.
"Hatred and violence based on religion can not have a place in our society."
On the other hand, two officials, one of them working on the security of the Jewish community and the other in a law enforcement on the identity of the attack on the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The suspects said the suspect was a 46-year-old US citizen named Robert Bowers who had published anti-Semitic messages on social networking sites.
Although the authorities did not officially announce the name of the person who detained him after the incident, which killed at least 11 people, the officials confirmed Bowers' identity.
