Leaders Struggle to Make Sense of Fatal Attack on Synagogue

Leaders Struggle to Make Sense of Fatal Attack on Synagogue
Heavily armed San Diego police officers approach a house thought to be the home of 19 year-old John T. Earnest, who is a suspect in the shooting of several people in a Poway synagogue in San Diego, Calif., on April 27, 2019. John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP
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POWAY, California—The rabbi who led a service on the last day of Passover suffered a gunshot wound to his hands and two others endured shrapnel wounds as political, civic and religious leaders across the country struggled to make sense of another fatal attack on a house of worship six months after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

John T. Earnest, 19, surrendered to the police after bursting into Chabad of Poway, north of San Diego on Saturday, April 27, and opening fire with about 100 people inside, killing Lori Kayne, 60, and injuring Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, Noya Dahan, 8, and Almog Peretz, 34, authorities said.