On this day in 2019, a white supremacist carried out a deadly shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California, United States. The gunman entered the synagogue’s foyer and fatally shot 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye. According to witnesses, she had heroically tried to shield Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the congregation’s founder, who was also wounded in the attack. The assailant then turned to a side room, where he shot and injured a man in the leg and also wounded his eight-year-old niece. He was understood to have fled before calling the police himself to confess that he had committed a shooting at a synagogue because he believed that Jews were trying to “destroy all white people,” and was subsequently apprehended approximately two miles from the synagogue. He was later convicted and sentenced in federal court to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus an additional thirty years
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