Synagogue Shooting Suspect Was a Piano-Playing Nursing Student From Religious Family With a Racist Secret
The suspected shooter of the San Diego synagogue, John Earnest, is a member of Escondido Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Escondido, CA.
Monday, April 29, 2019
"POWAY, California—Nineteen-year-old nursing student John T. Earnest, who was charged with murder Sunday as the lone gunman in the deadly Poway Synagogue shooting, played piano for hours a day and earned a 4.31 grade point average. His father was a church elder whom neighbors called “the sweetest man.”
But somewhere on his path, Earnest took a terrible turn, claiming Adolf Hitler as an idol and writing what appears to be his own rambling manifesto that Jews “deserved nothing but hell.” He wanted to be the one to, as he put it, “Send. Them. There.”..."
Synagogue Shooting Suspect Was a Piano-Playing Nursing Student From Religious Family With a Racist Secret - The Aquila Report
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Alleged synagogue shooter pleads not guilty to 109 federal charges
May 14, 2019
"SAN DIEGO — A 19-year-old man suspected of opening fire at a Poway synagogue in an anti-Semitic rampage made his first appearance in San Diego federal court Tuesday, pleading not guilty to 109 charges.
The federal hate crimes prosecution against John Timothy Earnest of Rancho Penasquitos, announced last week, is moving simultaneously alongside a state case charging him with murder, attempted murder and arson. He pleaded not guilty to those charges April 30 in San Diego Superior Court.
If convicted, both cases make him eligible for the death penalty, although separate decisions from state and federal prosecutors on whether to pursue capital punishment have not yet been reached.
The federal charges — 54 relating to obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs and 54 hate crime violations — were filed on behalf of each of the worshippers present at the Chabad of Poway on April 27 when the gunfire erupted. Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, was killed. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein was shot in both hands, causing him to lose an index finger, while Noya Dahan, 8, and her uncle Almog Peretz, 34, were wounded.
An additional charge — damage to a religious property using fire — relates to an arson at Dar-ul-Arquam mosque in Escondido on March 24...."
Alleged synagogue shooter pleads not guilty to 109 federal charges
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Statement from Family of Synagogue Shooting Suspect
https://media.nbcnewyork.com/documents/STATEMENT+FROM+THE+FAMILY+OF.pdf
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Earnest Complaint and Affidavit - Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1161421/download
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Full charging document released by federal authorities on May 9, 2019:
John+T +Earnest 19MJ1900 Complaint