Belleville police say the synagogue shooting during Yom Kippur was a hate-motivated, premeditated attack targeting Jews, crediting two officers with preventing a massacre.

Worshippers gathered for Yom Kippur services when gunfire erupted outside the Belleville, Ont., synagogue, wounding an officer and a man

The shooter who opened fire on a Belleville, Ontario, synagogue Sunday evening committed an anti-Jewish hate-motivated offense, according to the city’s police chief.

Un hombre de 29 años armado con una escopeta abrió fuego contra un policía apostado afuera de una sinagoga de Ontario durante la festividad de Yom Kippur, lo que desencadenó un tiroteo en el que se realizaron hasta 30 disparos,

A gunman opened fire outside a shul in Ontario, Canada, during Yom Kippur, with at least 23 bullets striking the building’s windows as mispallelim were inside. The shooting occurred outside Bnei Yaakov Shul in Belleville,