Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, was convicted of all 63 charges against him.
, prosecutor Soo Song said Bowers used multiple weapons during the shooting, including an AR-15 assault rifle.
She also said that after Bowers had been apprehended, police had asked him why he did it. Song said Bowers “blurted out, ‘All Jews need to die.’ ‘Jews are killing our kids.’ ‘Jews are bringing immigrants and killing our people and committing genocide.’ And, ‘Jews are the children of Satan.’” During the trial, Bowers’ defense attorney, Judy Clarke, focused not on Bowers’ guilt in committing the crimes — “There is no disagreement, no dispute and there will be no doubt who shot and killed the 11 congregants,” she said — but instead on his “motive and intent.”
Clarke did argue that Bowers was not motivated by hatred of Jews. Rather, she said, Bowers feared that congregants at the Tree of Life were helping immigrants, whom he believed were a threat. Another member of Bowers’ defense team, Elia Long, acknowledged during closing arguments that “none of this is true,” but said, “It is what Mr. Bowers believed to be true.”
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