San Francisco police have arrested a man who allegedly entered a Jewish synagogue during study hours and opened fire with several blank rounds.
Surveillance video shows a man enter through the front door, draw his gun, and fire several rounds.
The suspect has been identified as 51-year-old Dmitry Mashin.
A 51-year-old man, Dmitri Mashin, fired blanks at a Jewish community center meeting.
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Rabbi Chanukoff says, “This action is terrifying. To have a stranger come in and start shooting in your synagogue, in your place where you should feel safe.”
“Here comes a guy, I ask him, ‘Do you speak Russian?’ He said yes. I asked him, come with us. I didn’t hear, but some people said, he said, ‘I’m going to show you something,'” one of the attendees, who identified himself as He says he didn’t want to reveal it.
A 51-year-old man, Dmitri Mashin, fired blanks at a Jewish community center meeting.
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Matthew Finkelstein says members of the Schneerson Jewish Center are still processing the events of last Wednesday. “People wouldn’t even leave their chairs. This guy was shooting a gun. That’s because they were paralyzed with fear,” Finkelstein said.
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Police added Friday night that Machin is also connected to another incident that occurred around 8 p.m. Tuesday, when they say he entered a theater on Balboa Street with a handgun. He then fled the scene. No one was injured.
A 51-year-old man, Dmitri Mashin, fired blanks at a Jewish community center meeting.
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Rabbi Chenukoff steadfastly claimed that this was a hate crime.
“I believe it might have been when he said, ‘Say hello to the Mossad for me,'” Chinukoff says. “And so he was harming the Mossad by terrorizing Jews in America in this one synagogue. I’m not really clear. Obviously, I think the man is insane, the man is mentally ill. “
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