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Gunman attacks Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 people
Suspect in custody
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Law enforcement officers secure the scene where multiple people were shot Saturday at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. - photo by Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — A gunman who's believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a baby-naming ceremony at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in U.S. history.
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