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The 46-year-old suspect Robert Bowers "made a statement saying he wanted to" kill the Jews "" during the Saturday shootout, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday in its deed. charge.
The charges include 11 counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs that resulted in death and 11 counts of the use and discharge of firearms to commit murder during and in relationship with a crime of violence.
"Hatred and violence based on religion can have no place in our society," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a statement accompanying the indictment. "Every American has the right to go to his place of worship safely."
Family, friends and grieving neighbors of the 11 people shot in the synagogue of the Tree of Life continued Wednesday with a series of funerals.
Friends and family gathered at separate funerals to remember Joyce Fienberg, 75, Irving Younger, 69, and Melvin Wax, 88, who were among the 11 faithful. slaughtered.
Fienberg, a former researcher, is survived by her two sons and grandchildren. Her husband, "internationally renowned statistician" Stephen Fienberg, passed away in 2016.
"My mother-in-law was one of the kindest human beings I've ever met," said her stepdaughter, Marnie Fienberg, at ABC News.
Joyce Fienberg's most important relationship is with her six grandchildren aged 15 to 8, her daughter-in-law said.
"She learned social media very early to stay in touch with these children," said Marnie Fienberg. "Each of them had an individual relationship with her, she knew what was happening in their day, she was so involved, she was really an incredible grandmother."
Melvin Wax, a retired accountant, was part of the Tree of Life congregation, said a friend, Myron Snider, at the Associated Press.
Wax was known to be one of the few people to have always come forward early, Marilyn Honigsberg told AP.
"If someone who had not come was supposed to run the services, he could run the services and do everything he could do anything," Snider told the AP.
Wax's wife, Sandra, passed away in 2016.
Snider recalled that when he had recently spent six weeks in the hospital for pneumonia, Wax "called my wife to get my phone number to the hospital so that he could talk … just an adorable guy. "
Irving Younger, a former small business owner and youth baseball coach, was a regular volunteer and synagogue faithful, where he would come early and stay late, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
"I would not be surprised if he saw this gunman enter the room where the services were and his first thought was:" Can I help this stranger to settle? " Until he sees what the stranger was doing, because that is the kind of thought that he would have, "said Schachter, the former president of the congregation.
Touna Prizner, a neighbor, also told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that "Younger was also" the most wonderful of fathers and grandfathers. "
"He always talked about his daughter and grandson and he never had a nasty word to say about anyone," Prizner said.
President Donald Trump and the first lady, joined by President Jared Kushner's son-in-law and daughter Ivanka Trump, visited the synagogue on Tuesday afternoon.
The president placed stones as part of the Jewish tradition and white roses on the stars of David installed in a makeshift memorial for the victims.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers – who escaped the shootout on Saturday – greeted the president in front of the tree of life as protesters gathered nearby.
Thousands of people of different faiths, apparently united in anger, walked to the synagogue.
"Words have a meaning!" some neighbors shouted at the president's envoy.
After visiting the synagogue, the president and the first lady went to the hospital where they met injured police officers during the attack and medical personnel.
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