Washington: The 19-year-old accused in last month’s shooting at a synagogue in southern California was on Thursday charged with more than 100 federal hate crimes and civil rights violations. As the teen sped away in his 2012 Honda Civic, he dialed 911 and said: “I just shot up a synagogue.” He told the dispatcher that he thought he had killed some people and that he did it “because Jewish people are destroying the white race.”
The chilling account in a federal affidavit unsealed Thursday was the most detailed yet of a gunman’s attack on a Southern California synagogue that killed a woman and wounded three others during Passover service last month in the San Diego suburb of Poway. It describes a deeply disturbed man filled with hatred who claimed to be inspired by the attacks on the mosques in New Zealand and the shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue last fall.
