Thursday, November 1, 2018

Pittsburgh shooting: Robert Bowers pleads not guilty

Robert Bowers, the alleged gunman accuesed of killing 11 Jewish worshippers on October 27th has pleaded not guilty. He faces 44 counts of murder, hate crimes, obstructing religious practices and other crimes. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. The attack of the Tree of Life synagogue the worst anti-Semitic incident in US history. The additional courts on wednesday said Mr. Bowers assaulted police offiecer and also incluted special findings to support the casr for pursuing the death penality. so in total Mr. Bowers faces: 11 counts of obstructing free exercise of religious beliefs, resulting in death, 11 counts of using a firearm to commit murder, 11 counts of use of a firearm during a crime of violence, 8 counts of obstructing free exercise of religious beliefs involving an attempt to kill a public safety officer, 2 counts of obstructing free exercise of religious beliefs involving an attempt to kill, and 1 count of obstructing free exercise of religious beliefs with a dangerous weapon resulting in injury to an officer for a total of 44.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46062277

By: Jack Bronec

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