‘They showed his photo, and my stomach just dropped’: Neighbors recall synagogue massacre suspect as a loner

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#TIA – This was an early story about the holocaust in Pittsburgh. It just got worse after that

The man who told authorities he just wanted “to kill Jews” shortly after a grisly mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue was described Sunday as a loner who showed few outward signs of the vitriol he displayed in a trail of hate-filled online rants.

Neighbors knew Robert Bowers as a truck driver who rarely hosted visitors but exchanged pleasantries as he came and went from his first-floor apartment in a complex in Baldwin, a suburb on the south side of Pittsburgh. His unremarkable facade made the role authorities say he played in the massacre that left 11 dead all the more chilling, they said.

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