Pittsburgh synagogue massacre accused held ‘malice and hate for Jews’, jury told

The federal jury trial of Robert Bowers, the suspect in the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack is scheduled to get under way on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, four and a half years after the shooting deaths of 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP/PA)

Prosecutors on Tuesday described how a heavily armed suspect barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shot every worshipper he could find in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

Robert Bowers’ federal trial got under way more than four years after the shooting dead of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue.