Man Pleads Guilty to Murder in Deadly Shooting at California Synagogue
In a plea deal that spared him the death penalty, John T. Earnest admitted to killing a woman and injuring three others at a synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019.
Police outside of Chabad of Poway synagogue, in Poway, Calif., the day after the attack in April 2019.Credit...Denis Poroy/Associated Press
July 20, 2021
A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murder in a deadly attack at a synagogue in Southern California on the last day of Passover two years ago, during which he spewed anti-Semitic remarks, fatally shot a 60-year-old woman and injured three others.