PITTSBURGH — He s been accused of carrying out the worst antisemitic attack on U.S. soil, opening fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, killing 11 worshippers.
Jury selection begins Monday in the capital case against the man accused in the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue building in Squirrel Hill. Robert Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, could face the death penalty if convicted in the federal case. The process of choosing 12 jurors and
“Tree of Life” became the grim moniker for the massacre, and the 11 Jewish congregants killed there became the faces of the nation’s worst antisemitic attack.