Robert G. Bowers faces 63 counts in attack at the Tree of Life synagogue and could get the death sentence if convicted. The families of those killed were divided over whether the government should pursue the death penalty, but most were in favor.
, and the guns recovered from him at the crime scene where police shot Bowers three times before he surrendered.
Prosecutors indicated in court filings that they might introduce autopsy records and 911 recordings during the trial, including recordings of two calls from victims who were subsequently shot to death. They have said their evidence includes a Colt AR-15 rifle, three Glock .357 handguns and hundreds of cartridge cases, bullets and bullet fragments.Bowers also injured seven people, including five police officers who responded to the scene, investigators said.
Prosecutors wrote in a court filing that Bowers had nearly 400 followers on his Gab social media account “to whom he promoted his antisemitic views and calls to violence against Jews.”
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