The ex-girlfriend of one of the victims in an upstate New York double homicide has been taken into custody in connection with an unrelated case, authorities said Tuesday.
Just moments before the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 people dead, the suspect is believed to have posted a final social media rant against a Jewish refugee settlement agency most people had never heard of, but which has increasingly become the target of right-wing rage and conspiracy theories.
Law-enforcement agencies around the U.S. deployed extra officers at synagogues and Jewish centers on Saturday in response to a shooting that claimed 11 lives at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
A gunman who's believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in U.S. history.
Friends and relatives of a man and woman fatally shot outside their upstate New York home earlier this week say the couple's 4-year-old son was in his mother's car with her when she was gunned down at the wheel.
Police searched Tuesday for a man who fatally shot another man and a woman in an upstate New York town that in the past year also lost two teenagers to violence and a mother and her baby to suspected foul play.