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Mourners visit a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue, a day after 11 Jewish worshippers were shot dead in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 28 2018. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

Mourners’ emotional vigil for victims of US synagogue attack

The assault on the 150-year-old congregation was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history

Jennie Matthew

Police vehicles block off the road near the home of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers’ home in Baldwin Baldwin borough, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 27 2018. (John Altdorfer/Reuters)

Synagogue shooter spoke of ‘genocide,’ police ID victims

Federal officials said 46-year-old Robert Bowers faces 29 separate federal charges, several of them carrying the death penalty

Jennie Matthew