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‘Whitey’ Bulger dead in prison at 89 By MADISON GOODMAN Staff Writer Early morning on Oct. 27, , the Tree was a car accident. When he stepped of life Synagogue was involved in a outside, he saw people running away multiple homicide shooting. Robert from the synagogue and screaming. Bowers, the shooter, surrendered to In that short period of time, he said he authorities right after the event took heard a total of nine shots. place. Bowers had successfully killed 11 Before the shooting, he was seen on social media posting; however, authorities did not see this as a threat since there are millions of racial and cultural comments made every day. According to authorities, he was said to be yelling anti-semitic statements during the shooting, as well. Even lives were taken that day. The lives taken consisted of the following: Irving Young aged Source: CNN 69, Melvin Wax James ”Whitey” Bulger circa 1959 aged 88, Rose Mallinger aged 97, Ber- people, but he had attempted to potennice Simon aged 84 and her husband, tially shoot more victims. He injured six Sylvan Simon aged 86, Jerry Rabinow- other people four of whom consisted of itz aged 57, Joyce Fienburg aged 75, SWAT members and police officers. Richard Gottfried aged 65, Daniel Stein It became evident he was going to aged 71 and the Rosenthal brothers shoot anyone and everyone who got in Cecil and David. the way of his mission. As told by the They were both in their 60’s. policeman, he came up to Bowers and According to their peers, the victims was immediately shot. were the first ones to enter the synaFor this event, Bowers is being gogue that day. The victims were also charged with “11 counts of using a known for being very involved in the firearm to commit murder and multisynagogue the past couple years. ple counts of two hate crimes: obstrucWhen the incident began, a neigh- tion of the exercise of religious beliefs bor, Jim Waite, heard a loud commo- resulting in death and obstruction of tion. He told reporters he thought it the exercise of religious beliefs result-
ing in bodily injury to a public safety officer,” said by authorities citing a sealed criminal complaint. Bowers is potentially looking at the death penalty as his punishment. As a result of the shooting, many people and assemblies are coming out with statements rocking America’s base:freedom. For example, the Orthodox Union’s executive vice president said, “This senseless act of anti-semitic violence was not only an egregious attack on the Jewish community, but an attack on the very foundations of civil society and our collective democratic values.” The Rabbinical Society put out a statement saying, “an act of hate against one community was an act of hate against all.” After these statements were published, there was an increase in American citizens, not just the Jewish community, beginning to show support and remorse by leaving stuffed animals, balloons and cards at the scene of the incident. The Tree of Life Synagogue shooting was said to be the turn of the century for racism and anti-Semitism.
