L.A. Synagogue Shooting Not a Hate Crime

LAPD says, though shooter still at large

By Allison Hoffman | 2:00 pm Oct 30, 2009 | Print | Email / Share

Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Synagogue yesterday.

Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Synagogue yesterday.

CREDIT: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Good news: police seem to have decided yesterday’s early-morning shooting at a Los Angeles synagogue wasn’t a hate crime. They’re not really sure what prompted it, and they definitely don’t know who did it, but the main thing, LAPD counterterrorism chief Mike Downing told the Los Angeles Times, is that the two victims weren’t shot on account of being Jewish, but because someone had a score to settle. Which means that the guy who told the paper that the neighborhood where the shooting happened is “like a small Israel” was more right than he probably realized.

Synagogue Shooting Unnerves Los Angeles [LAT]


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