Truck driver convicted of killing 11 in US synagogue shooting

Bowers was tried on 63 criminal counts, including hate crimes resulting in death and obstruction of the free exercise of religion resulting in death

Robert Bowers has been found guilty of 11 murders (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP)

A truck driver who expressed hatred of Jews has been convicted of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror.

The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers’ own lawyers conceded at the trial’s outset that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27 2018 in the deadliest attack on Jews in US history.