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betteroffwithoutyou · 3 years

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❖ CHARACTER BASICS

FULL NAME hayden charlotte richardson NICKNAME(S) hay DATE OF BIRTH september 03 SEXUALITY biromantic bisexual

❖ APPEARANCE

FACE CLAIM nicola peltz EYE COLOR green HAIR COLOR fair amber blonde PIERCINGS nose TATTOOS “the course of true love never did run smooth” on her left rib cage SCARS n/a

❖ BACKGROUND

NATIONALITY american HOMETOWN manhattan, new york city, new york PLACES LIVED new york city, new york; fairfield, connecticut; lyon, france RELIGION atheist SPOKEN LANGUAGES english (fluent, primary), french (fluent), italian (conversational)

❖ EDUCATION AND CAREER

OCCUPATION assistant editor SCHOOLING high school graduate, ENS Paris NOTABLE EXPERIENCE conde nast intern

❖ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

TRAITS distant, closed off, observant ZODIAC SIGN virgo JUNG’S estj ENNEAGRAM type four (the individualist) 4w5 MORAL ALIGNMENT chaotic neutral HOGWARTS HOUSE slytherin SIN lust VIRTUE diligence

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HEADCANONS

RELATIONSHIP CANON

❖ FAMILY

FATHER gregory richardson

there has never been a time in all of hayden’s life when her father looked at her with loving eyes. to him, his oldest of the richardson children was always his one and only. she has only ever gotten an ‘i love you’ from her father a hand-full of times, and each one of those times it sounded rehearsed and far from genuine. this is something that hayden learned to cope with from a young age and now can hardly be bothered to care if her father forgets her birthday.

MOTHER catelyn richardson (née dilaurentis)

hayden was never particularly close with either of her parents but her mother was slightly more present growing up. for a long time, catelyn tried to mold her into the daughter she had wanted; having failed with Vera. The woman wanted a daughter she could treat more like a barbie doll: control her ever move, who she spoke to, what she wore, and what her social life activities were. This was a no go for her as well though and as soon as hayden stopped playing into the things her mother wanted her to be, she lost interest. since then they are like distant old friends whose only bond is that gregory richardson could fucking care less about what happened to them.

BROTHER oliver ramsey richardson

where gregory lacked in father skills, oliver made up for it by trying to be there for hayden as much as possible. from a young age he took it upon himself to look after her and be the father figure she needed but it became difficult when hayden started to break away from her family completely. not only that but oliver had his own life outside of their household that kept him busy. for most of hayden’s teenage life her older brother spent most of his time traveling and only came one once or twice a year. they never held anything against each other though, and now try to keep contact more than ever, spending as much time as possible together whenever he’s in europe.

SISTER vera anastasia richardson

there has never been a real moment of peace between Hayden and her older sister. Vera was always their fathers favorite child — the only one he even had as far as he was concerned from the way he treated oliver and hayden. their father’s love wasn’t something that hayden ever tried to fight vera over but vera never wasted any opportunities in making it known that she was the best, the only worth richardson child in the household. if the two were ever caught being nice towards each other, it was only for appearances, any other time the two girls could barely even be in the same room for more than ten minutes. it wasn’t until vera moved out of the house across the country that the two began to be somewhat tolerant of each other. the distance and all the time they spent without contact was what they needed to go from fighting like cats and dogs to being civil. still, vera any conversation the two have now is filled with passive aggressive comments reminding hayden that she’s the superior one with a more successful life.

❖ EXTENDED FAMILY

BROTHER-IN-LAW

bennett lancaster

NEPHEW

harrison lancaster

AUNT

marjorie dilaurentis-giroud

❖ ROMANCE

PRESTON THORPE (ex-fling)

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TYLER ROLLINS (ex-boyfriend)

ship: hr x tr

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❖ FRIENDS & FOES

HARLEY BANCROFT (best friend)

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brotp: in omnia paratus

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GISELLE TYLER (best friend)

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SANTIAGO CAVALIERI (close friend)

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XANDER RHODES (close friend)

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LOGAN HOLLOWAY (acquaintance)

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WILLA KENNEDY (acquaintance)

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LACEY HOLLOWAY (acquaintance, dislike)

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#srk: haydenrichardsoninfo

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mclibunghts · 3 years

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seattlefm · 4 years

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┊ welcome to the mystery, LOTTIE, YULIA, ADDIS & DONNA ! you seem a little suspicious, but innocent until proven guilty right? you have TWELVE HOURS to report to the sheriff’s office to provide your alibi. ( sydney sweeney, nicola peltz, josh heuston & genevieve van dam are now taken)

[ sydney sweeney. cisfemale. 20. she/her. ] hey, did you see CHARLOTTE “LOTTIE” COOKE at the party? i heard they CHILDHOOD FRIENDS WITH ARABELLA, doesn’t that seem suspicious? someone told me that they’re KIND HEARTED, but also NAIVE so i’m not sure what to think of them. could they have had something to do with it? [ j. she/her. 21+. est. ]

[ nicola peltz. cis female. 23. she/her. ] hey, did you see YULIA LANCASTER at the party? i heard they USED TO HOOK UP WITH HER, doesn’t that seem suspicious? someone told me that they’re AMIABLE, but also RETICENT so i’m not sure what to think of them. could they have had something to do with it? [ m. she/her. 18+. gmt. ] + they work as a BARISTA at ESPRESSO EXPRESS.

[ josh heuston. cismale. twenty-two. he/him. ] hey, did you see ADDISON “ADDIS” GREGORY at the party? i heard they WERE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS WITH ARABELLA, doesn’t that seem suspicious? someone told me that they’re MIRTHFUL, but also CATISH so i’m not sure what to think of them. could they have had something to do with it? [ ct. he/him. 21+. central. ]

[ genevieve van dam. cisfemale. 21. she/her. ] hey, did you see DONNA PIZELLI at the party? i heard they SAW ARABELLA FIGHTING WITH HER BOYFRIEND, doesn’t that seem suspicious? someone told me that they’re BUBBLY, but also ENVIOUS so i’m not sure what to think of them. could they have had something to do with it? [ b. she/her. 23. est. ]

+ they work as a CASHIER at FATALE FILMS.

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aetherrp · 4 years

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Abaixo do read more estão os nossos aceitos das últimas 24 horas. Sejam todos muito bem-vindos e bem-vindas! Agradecemos pela aplicação e esperamos que consigam desenvolver seus personagem conosco! Por favor, enviem o blog de personagem para a central em até 24 horas a contar desta aceitação. Divirtam-se!

Acaba de passar pelos portões ROWAN EDWARD TREMAINE, o herdeiro de DRIZELLA TREMAINE E GRÃO DUQUE (Cinderela). É verdade que ela é idêntica a HERO FIENNES-TIFFIN, mas é melhor não mencionar. A ajudante Razzles irá cuidar das acomodações antes que a carruagem vire abóbora.

Acaba de passar pelos portões GREGORY TOBY OCEAN, o herdeiro de ARIEL E PRINCIPE ERIC (A Pequena Sereia). É verdade que ela é idêntica a ALEX FITZALAN, mas é melhor não mencionar. A ajudante Joba irá cuidar das acomodações antes que a carruagem vire abóbora.

Acaba de passar pelos portões CLARISSA LOUISE FITZHERBERT, a herdeira de RAPUNZEL. É verdade que ela é idêntica a NICOLA PELTZ, mas é melhor não mencionar. A ajudante Donatella irá cuidar das acomodações antes que a carruagem vire abóbora.

Acaba de passar pelos portões EUDORA “DORA” TIANA FACILIER OF MALDONIA, a herdeira de DR. FACILIER TIANA E NAVEEN (A Princesa e o Sapo). É verdade que ela é idêntica a DIAMOND WHITE, mas é melhor não mencionar. A ajudante Bel irá cuidar das acomodações antes que a carruagem vire abóbora.

#aceitos.#desculpa pela demora gente

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frontstreet1 · 5 years

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PITTSBURGH — Members of Pittsburgh’s grief-stricken Jewish community endured another round of funerals Wednesday for victims of the synagogue massacre, a day after President Donald Trump encountered hundreds of protesters when he came to town to pay his respects.

Melvin Wax, 87, Irving Younger, 69, and Joyce Fienberg, 75, were to be laid to rest as part of a weeklong series of services for the 11 people killed in a shooting rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue Saturday. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

“It can’t be fixed,” Robert Libman said at the funeral of Fienberg, his sister, clutching his chest as he described the pain of losing her. “My sister is dead. My sister was murdered. There was no one I know like her. Pure goodness. … She was the most tolerant and gentle person that I’ve ever known.”

Her sons, Anthony, of Paris, and Howard, of Vienna, Virginia, said she spent five years caring for their father as he battled cancer, then after his death a few years ago, devoted more of her time and energy to Tree of Life.

“My mom would be very angry that her funeral wasn’t able to be at Tree of Life, and that her friends lost Saturday couldn’t be here,” Howard Fienberg said.

The funerals for Wax and Younger were to be held later Tuesday.

Funerals for synagogue victims draw hundreds

Six people were wounded in the attack, including four police officers, two of whom remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Two congregants were still in the hospital, one in critical condition.

In a bit of good news, hospital officials said the two most seriously injured shooting victims are improving.

A police officer and a congregant remain in intensive care but “are doing much better now,” Dr. Donald Yealy, chairman of emergency medicine at UPMC, said Wednesday. “I think overall the prognoses are good now. But each of them, in a varying way, will have a different trajectory and likely will require a series of ongoing care.”

With Tree of Life still cordoned off as a crime scene, the man arrested in the attack, 46-year-old truck driver Robert Gregory Bowers, remains behind bars, awaiting a hearing Thursday on federal hate-crime charges that could bring the death penalty. Authorities said he raged against Jews during the attack.

The first three funerals were held on Tuesday, with thousands of mourners jamming a synagogue, a Jewish community center and a third, undisclosed site for the funerals of a beloved family doctor, a pillar of the congregation, and two intellectually disabled brothers in the 50s who were known as “the boys.”

Cecil and David Rosenthal were “beautiful souls” who had “not an ounce of hate in them — something we’re terribly missing today,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, a survivor of the massacre, said at their funeral at Rodef Shalom, one of the city’s oldest and largest synagogues.

The brothers were both active at Tree of Life, with Cecil the more gregarious of the two, a man with a booming voice who was known as the “mayor” of the city’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and the “town crier” for the gossip he managed to gather.

“They were innocent like boys, not hardened like men,” the Rosenthals’ sister, Diane Hirt, told mourners.

On Tuesday afternoon, after the day’s funerals were over, Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived in Pittsburgh to shouting, chanting protesters with signs such as “It’s your fault” and “Words matter,” a reference to allegations that Trump’s combative language has emboldened bigots. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, both Democrats, declined to join him during the visit.

“He didn’t pull the trigger, but his verbiage and actions don’t help,” said Squirrel Hill resident Paul Carberry, 55, wearing anti-Trump patches on his hat and jacket.

Another Squirrel Hill resident, Shayna Marcus, a Jewish 34-year-old nurse and Trump supporter who hoped to catch sight of the presidential motorcade, said: “I don’t think focusing on Trump is the answer, or on politics.”

One person was arrested during the protests.

During their visit, Trump and the first lady lit candles at Tree of Life for the victims and laid white roses as well as stones for each of the dead, a Jewish burial tradition. They later went to a hospital to visit with survivors.

They were joined by Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, as well as Myers, the Tree of Life rabbi, and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer.

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First lady Melania Trump, accompanied by President Donald Trump, and Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, right, puts down a white flower at a memorial for those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

A private funeral was conducted Tuesday for Daniel Stein, the 71-year-old men’s club president at Tree of Life. And a service with more than 1,000 people was held for Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill.

The 66-year-old Rabinowitz was a go-to doctor for HIV patients in the epidemic’s early and desperate days, a physician who always hugged his patients as they left his office.

“A lot of people are feeling really angry about this. A lot of rage built up inside about this, because of it being a hate crime. Don’t get me wrong; I do. But I’m so overwhelmed with sadness right now that I can’t even be angry right now,” said Robin Faulkner, whose family had seen Rabinowitz for 30 years and counted him as a dear friend. “It’s just such a loss. Just tragic.”

Among the mourners at the Rosenthal brothers’ funeral was Dr. Abe Friedman, who typically sat in the back row of Tree of Life with the two men but was late to synagogue on Saturday and was not there when the gunman opened fire.

As he stood in line at the funeral, Friedman wondered why he had been spared.

“Why did things fall into place for me?” he asked. “I usually sit in the back row. In the last row, everyone got killed.”

A mourner reacts outside Rodef Shalom Congregation before the funeral services for brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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By MARYCLAIRE DALE and ALLEN G. BREED – Oct 31. 2018 – 12:33 PM EDT

Associated Press reporter Claudia Lauer reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press journalists Robert Bumsted, Adam Geller and Mark Scolforo in Pittsburgh and Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed.

Pittsburgh Funerals Continue After Trump Visit And Protests PITTSBURGH — Members of Pittsburgh’s grief-stricken Jewish community endured another round of funerals Wednesday for victims of the synagogue massacre, a day after President Donald Trump encountered hundreds of protesters when he came to town to pay his respects.

#Anti-Trump Protesters #JEWISH COMMUNITY #Pittsburgh Funerals #Synagogue Massacre

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cutsliceddiced · 6 years

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New top story from Time: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Suspect Arrives in Court After Being Released From Hospital

(PITTSBURGH) — The man accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was released from a hospital and turned over to federal authorities for a court appearance Monday on charges he killed 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

Robert Gregory Bowers, 46, who was shot and wounded in a gun battle with police, arrived at the federal courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh less than two hours after his release from Allegheny General Hospital, according to U.S. marshals. A government car with a wheelchair visible inside could be seen arriving earlier.

Federal prosecutors set in motion plans to seek the death penalty against Bowers, who authorities say expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage and later told police that “I just want to kill Jews” and that “all these Jews need to die.”

The first funeral — for Cecil Rosenthal and his younger brother, David — was set for Tuesday.

Survivors, meanwhile, began offering harrowing accounts of the mass shooting Saturday inside Tree of Life Synagogue.

Barry Werber said he found himself hiding in a dark storage closet as the gunman tore through the building and opened fire.

“I don’t know why he thinks the Jews are responsible for all the ills in the world, but he’s not the first and he won’t be the last,” Werber, 76, said Sunday. “Unfortunately, that’s our burden to bear. It breaks my heart.”

The weekend massacre — which took place 10 days before the midterm elections — heightened tensions around the country, coming just a day after the arrest of the Florida man accused of sending a wave of pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump.

The mail bomb attacks and the bloodshed in Pittsburgh set off debate over whether the corrosive political rhetoric in Washington and beyond contributed to the violence and whether Trump himself bears any blame.

The attack spurred a number of fundraising efforts. A crowdfunding campaign called Muslims Unite for Pittsburgh Synagogue raised more than $90,000 for survivors and families, while a fundraiser led by a graduate student in Washington had taken in nearly $545,000 as of Monday morning, with funds to go to the congregation.

Bowers killed eight men and three women before a tactical police team tracked him down and shot him, authorities said. Six other people were wounded, including four officers.

He apparently posted an anti-Semitic message on a social media account linked to him just a few minutes before the rampage. The Anti-Defamation League called it the deadliest U.S. attack on Jews.

It wasn’t clear whether Bowers has an attorney to speak on his behalf. A message left with the federal public defender’s office in Pittsburgh wasn’t returned.

Three congregations were conducting Sabbath services in the synagogue when the attack began just before 10 a.m. in the tree-lined residential neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, about 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh and the hub of the city’s Jewish community .

Speaking at a vigil in Pittsburgh on Sunday night, Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said about a dozen people had gathered in the main sanctuary when Bowers walked in and began shooting. Seven of his congregants were killed, he said.

“My holy place has been defiled,” he said.

In the basement, four members of New Light congregation were just starting to pray — with two others in the kitchen — when they heard crashing coming from upstairs, looked out the door and saw a body on the staircase, Werber recalled in an interview.

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman closed the door and pushed them into a large supply closet, he said. As gunshots echoed upstairs, Werber called 911 but was afraid to say anything, for fear of making any noise.

When the shots subsided, he said, another congregant, Melvin Wax, opened the door, only to be shot.

“There were three shots, and he falls back into the room where we were,” Werber said. “The gunman walks in.”

Apparently unable to see Werber and the other congregants in the darkness, Bowers walked back out.

Werber called the gunman “a maniac” and “a person who has no control of his baser instincts.”

The youngest of the 11 dead was 54, the oldest 97. The toll included a husband and wife, professors, dentists and physicians.

Bowers shot his victims with an AR-15, used in many of the nation’s mass shootings, and three handguns, all of which he owned legally and had a license to carry, according to a law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Bowers was a long-haul trucker who worked for himself, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said. Little else was known about the suspect, who had no apparent criminal record.

Bowers was charged with 11 state counts of criminal homicide, six counts of aggravated assault and 13 counts of ethnic intimidation. He was also charged in a 29-count federal criminal complaint that included counts of obstructing the exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death — a federal hate crime — and using a firearm to commit murder.

Of the six survivors, four remained in the hospital Sunday night, and two — including a 40-year-old officer — were in critical condition.

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Lauer reported from Philadelphia. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Mark Scolforo in Pittsburgh, Michael Balsamo in Washington, Jennifer Peltz in New York and Michael Rubinkam in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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frontstreet1 · 6 years

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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh’s Jewish community began burying its dead Tuesday in the wake of the bloodiest anti-Semitic attack in American history.

The casket of Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, a family physician known for his caring and kindness, was brought to the Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood for the first of 11 funerals. Two police vehicles were posted at a side door and two at the main entrance.

A line stretched around the block as mourners — some in white medical coats, some wearing yarmulkes, black hats or head scarves — passed beneath the blue Romanesque arches into the brick building, an American flag nearby fluttering at half-staff.

Less than two miles away, hundreds of mourners dressed mostly in black converged on the city’s oldest and largest synagogue, Rodef Shalom, for the funeral of Cecil and David Rosenthal, intellectually disabled brothers in their 50s.

Among the mourners was Kate Lederman. She grew up in the Tree of Life synagogue, where Saturday’s massacre took place, and celebrated all of her milestones there. She recently gave birth.

“I was named there, bat mitzvahed there, married there. And my whole life was in that synagogue. Same with my father. And we knew Cecil and David. We knew all of them. This should be a week of pure joy having a baby, but it’s a week of terror,” she said. “We were supposed to have our baby naming there, but we’re going to do it at home.”

Also paying his respects was Dr. Abe Friedman, who typically sat in the back row of Tree of Life with the Rosenthal brothers but was late to the service on Saturday and was not there when the gunman opened fire. As he stood in line at the funeral Tuesday with his wife, he wondered why he had been spared.

“Why did things fall into place for me?” he asked. “I usually sit in the back row. In the last row, everyone got killed.”

A funeral was also set Tuesday for Daniel Stein, a man seen as part of the core of his congregation.

The other victims’ funerals have been scheduled through Friday in a week of mourning, anguish and questions about the rampage that authorities say was carried out by a gunman who raged against Jews.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump planned to visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday to “express the support of the American people and to grieve with the Pittsburgh community,” the White House said.

The plan elicited mixed feelings in Pittsburgh.

Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers told CNN that the president is “certainly welcome,” while Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto asked Trump not to come while the city was burying its dead.

Some other people, including shooting survivor Barry Werber, didn’t want a visit from a president who has embraced the politically fraught term “nationalist.” Some have accused the president of helping to create the corrosive political atmosphere that may have led to the violence.

The man arrested in the massacre, Robert Gregory Bowers, appeared briefly Monday in federal court, where he was ordered held without bail for a preliminary hearing on Thursday. The 46-year-old truck driver faces hate-crime charges that could bring the death penalty.

The attack killed some of the synagogue’s most dedicated members. The oldest victim was 97-year-old Rose Mallinger. At 54, David Rosenthal was the youngest.

He and Cecil, 59, lived at a building run by Achieva, a disability-services organization that had worked with the brothers for years. David had worked with Achieva’s cleaning service and at Goodwill Industries, and Cecil was hoping to start a job soon at a workplace-services company, Achieva spokeswoman Lisa Razza told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

David was quieter than Cecil, who had a sociable personality that earned him a reputation as “the honorary mayor of Squirrel Hill,” a historic Jewish enclave in Pittsburgh.

“They were lovely souls, and they lived for the congregation” at Tree of Life, said Brian Schreiber, a member who is also president of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh.

Rabinowitz, 66, had a family medicine practice and was affiliated with UPMC Shadyside hospital. He was a go-to doctor for HIV patients in the epidemic’s early and desperate days, a physician who “always hugged us as we left his office,” according to Michael Kerr, who credits Rabinowitz with helping him survive.

“Thank you,” Kerr wrote on Facebook, “for having always been there during the most terrifying and frightening time of my life. … You are one of my heroes.”

Stein, 71, was a visible member of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community, where he was the men’s club president at Tree of Life. He was among a trio of members who made up the “religious heart” of New Light Congregation, one of three congregations that worship at the synagogue, co-president Stephen Cohen said.

Stein’s nephew Steven Halle told the Tribune-Review that his uncle had a dry sense of humor and a willingness to help anybody.

“He was somebody that everybody liked,” Halle said.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and CLAUDIA LAUER – Oct 30. 2018 – 12:57 PM EDT

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Lauer reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press journalists Robert Bumsted, Allen G. Breed and Mark Scolforo in Pittsburgh and Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed.

Rampage Victims’ Funerals Begin As Trump Heads To Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh’s Jewish community began burying its dead Tuesday in the wake of the bloodiest anti-Semitic attack in American history.

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frontstreet1 · 6 years

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PITTSBURGH — The man accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre appeared briefly in federal court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

Robert Gregory Bowers, who was wounded in a gun battle with police during the shooting rampage, was released from a hospital and wheeled into the courtroom, where he was ordered held without bail for a preliminary hearing on Thursday, when prosecutors will outline their case against him.

During the proceeding, Bowers talked with two court-appointed lawyers, went over documents and confirmed his identity to a judge, saying little more than “Yes” in a soft voice a few times. Courtroom deputies freed one of his hands from cuffs so he could sign paperwork. He did not enter a plea.

He was expressionless.

“It was not the face of villainy that I thought we’d see,” said Jon Pushinsky, a congregant who was in court for the hearing.

Federal prosecutors set in motion plans to seek the death penalty against the 46-year-old truck driver, who authorities say expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue and later told police, “I just want to kill Jews” and “All these Jews need to die.”

Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers vowed to rebuild following a weekend massacre at his Pittsburgh synagogue where Robert Gregory Bowers is accused of killing 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. (Oct. 29)

After the hearing, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady called the shootings “horrific acts of violence” and added: “Rest assured we have a team of prosecutors working hard to ensure that justice is done.”

Meanwhile, the first funeral — for Cecil Rosenthal and his younger brother, David — was set for Tuesday, and the White House announced President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will visit the same day to “express the support of the American people and to grieve with the Pittsburgh community.”

The response to Trump’s plans was mixed.

Leaders of a liberal Jewish group in Pittsburgh, Bend the Arc, wrote an open letter to the president, accusing him of contributing to the violence with his words and deeds and saying he was not welcome until he denounced white nationalism.

But Rabbi Jeffrey Myers with the Tree of Life synagogue made clear Trump would be welcome, telling NBC, “It would be my honor to always meet a president of the United States.”

The mail bomb attacks and the bloodshed in Pittsburgh set off debate over whether the corrosive political climate in Washington and beyond contributed to the violence and whether Trump himself bears any blame because of his combative language.

Barry Werber, 76, said he found himself hiding in a dark storage closet as the gunman rampaged through the building, in the tree-lined neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, the historic hub of the city’s Jewish community.

Werber said he hopes Trump doesn’t visit Pittsburgh, noting that the president has embraced the politically fraught label of “nationalist.” He said the Nazis were nationalists.

“It’s part of his program to instigate his base,” Werber said, and “bigots are coming out of the woodwork.”

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, a Democrat, said the White House should contact the victims’ families and ask them if they want the president to come to Pittsburgh. He also warned Trump to stay away when the first funerals are held.

“If the president is looking to come to Pittsburgh, I would ask that he not do so while we are burying the dead,” Peduto said. “Our attention and our focus is going to be on them, and we don’t have public safety that we can take away from what is needed in order to do both.”

Bowers killed eight men and three women before a police tactical team shot him, authorities said. Six other people were wounded, including four officers. Four of the wounded remained hospitalized Sunday night, two in critical condition.

The president of the hospital where a wounded Bowers was taken said that he was ranting against Jews even as Jewish staff members were treating him.

“He’s taken into my hospital and he’s shouting, ‘I want to kill all the Jews!’ and the first three people who are taking care of him are Jewish,” Jeffery Cohen of Allegheny General Hospital told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” ″Ain’t that a kick in the pants?”

Cohen, who is also Jewish and a member of Tree of Life synagogue, said he stopped by Bowers’ room.

“I just asked how he was doing, was he in pain, and he said no, he was fine,” Cohen said. “He asked who I was, and I said, ‘I’m Dr. Cohen, the president of the hospital,’ and I turned around and left.”

He said the FBI agent outside Bowers’ room told him he didn’t think he could have done that. “And I said, ‘If you were in my shoes I’m sure you could have,’” Cohen said.

Bowers was charged in a 29-count federal criminal complaint that included counts of obstructing the exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death — a hate crime — and using a gun to commit murder.

Bowers was also charged under state law with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation.

Just minutes before the synagogue attack, Bowers apparently took to social media to rage against HIAS, a Jewish organization that resettles refugees under contract with the U.S. government.

“HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people,” he is believed to have written on Gab.com, a social media site favored by right-wing extremists. “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

HIAS had recently weighed in on the migrant caravan heading toward the U.S. from Central America, urging the Trump administration to “provide all asylum seekers the opportunity to present their claims as required by law.” The president has vilified the caravan and pledged to stop the migrants.

One of the targets of the mail bomb attacks last week was liberal Jewish philanthropist George Soros, who has been accused by far-right conspiracy theorists of paying migrants to join the caravan.

The youngest of the 11 dead was 54, the oldest 97. The toll included a husband and wife, professors, dentists and physicians.

Bowers was a long-haul trucker who worked for himself, authorities said. Little else was known about Bowers, who had no apparent criminal record.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE, CLAUDIA LAUER and ALLEN G. BREED – Oct 29. 2018 – 5:16 PM EDT

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This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of “Pushinsky” and to show Jeffery Cohen’s comments were made to “Good Morning America,” not WTAE-TV.

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https://apnews.com/Pittsburghsynagoguemassacre

Synagogue Massacre Defendant Appears In Court In Wheelchair PITTSBURGH — The man accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre appeared briefly in federal court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S.

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Robert Gregory Bowers, who was wounded in a gun battle with police during the shooting rampage, was released from a hospital in the morning and a few hours later was wheeled into the courtroom, where he was ordered held without bail for a preliminary hearing on Thursday, when prosecutors will outline their case against him.

During the court appearance, Bowers talked with two court-appointed lawyers, went over documents and confirmed his identity to a judge, saying little more than “Yes” in a soft voice a few times. Courtroom deputies freed one of his hands from cuffs so he could sign paperwork. He did not enter a plea.

He was expressionless.

“It was not the face of villainy that I thought we’d see,” said Jon Pushinsky, a congregant at Dor Hadash, which lost one of its members to the massacre. Pushinsky was one of two Dor Hadash congregants at the hearing.

Federal prosecutors set in motion plans to seek the death penalty against the 46-year-old truck driver, who authorities say expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage and later told police, “I just want to kill Jews” and “All these Jews need to die.”

The first funeral — for Cecil Rosenthal and his younger brother, David — was set for Tuesday.

Survivors, meanwhile, began offering harrowing accounts of the mass shooting Saturday inside Tree of Life Synagogue.

Barry Werber, 76, said he found himself hiding in a dark storage closet as the gunman tore through the building.

“I don’t know why he thinks the Jews are responsible for all the ills in the world, but he’s not the first and he won’t be the last,” Werber said. “Unfortunately, that’s our burden to bear. It breaks my heart.”

The White House announced President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will visit Pennsylvania on Tuesday “to express the support of the American people and to grieve with the Pittsburgh community.”

The response to Trump’s plans to visit has been mixed.

Leaders of a liberal Jewish group in Pittsburgh wrote an open letter to the president, saying he was not welcome until he denounced white nationalism. But Rabbi Jeffrey Myers with the Tree of Life synagogue made clear Trump would be welcome, telling NBC, “It would be my honor to always meet a president of the United States.”

Werber noted that the president has embraced the politically fraught label of “nationalist.” He said the Nazis were nationalists.

“It’s part of his program to instigate his base,” Werber said, and “bigots are coming out of the woodwork.”

He was charged in a 29-count federal criminal complaint that included counts of obstructing the exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death — a hate crime — and using a gun to commit murder.

Bowers was also charged under state law with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation.

Just minutes before the synagogue attack, Bowers apparently took to social media to rage against HIAS, a Jewish organization that resettles refugees under contract with the U.S. government.

HIAS had recently weighed in on the migrant caravan heading toward the U.S. from Central America, urging the Trump administration to “provide all asylum seekers the opportunity to present their claims as required by law and treat all migrants fairly and humanely.” The president has vilified the caravan and pledged to stop the migrants.

One of the targets of the mail bomb attacks last week was liberal Jewish philanthropist George Soros, who has been accused by far-right conspiracy theorists of paying migrants to join the caravan.

Three congregations were conducting Sabbath services in the synagogue when the attack began just before 10 a.m. in the tree-lined residential neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, the historic hub of the city’s Jewish community .

Speaking at a vigil in Pittsburgh on Sunday night, Myers, the Tree of Life rabbi, said about a dozen people had gathered in the main sanctuary when Bowers walked in and began shooting. Seven of his congregants were killed, he said.

“My holy place has been defiled,” he said.

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman closed the door and pushed them into a large supply closet, he said. As gunshots echoed upstairs, Werber called 911 but was afraid to say anything for fear of making any noise. When the shots subsided, he said, another congregant, Melvin Wax, opened the door, only to be shot.

“There were three shots, and he falls back into the room where we were,” Werber said. “The gunman walks in.”

Apparently unable to see Werber and the other congregants in the darkness, Bowers walked back out.

Werber called the gunman “a maniac” and “a person who has no control of his baser instincts.”

The youngest of the 11 dead was 54, the oldest 97. The toll included a husband and wife, professors, dentists and physicians.

Bowers was a long-haul trucker who worked for himself, authorities said. Little else was known about Bowers, who had no apparent criminal record.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE, CLAUDIA LAUER and ALLEN G. BREED – OCT 29. 2018 – 3:12 PM EDT

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This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of ‘Pushinsky.’

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For AP’s complete coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings: https://www.apnews.com/Shootings

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