Suspect arrested in San Francisco synagogue shooting

An suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting inside the Schneerson Center, a synagogue in San Francisco, on February 4th.

The suspect, Dmitri Mishin, is believed to have fired several shots at worshipers before cowardly fleeing. It turns out that he was firing blanks, which would have been great if his father had done the same 51 years ago before Dmitri was conceived. But fortunately, nobody was hurt and no damage was caused other than what was likely a trauma that will last a lifetime for those who thought they were going to die.

Mishin is being held on suspicion of disturbing a religious assembly, brandishing an imitation firearm and causing another to refrain from engaging in a religious service, according to CBS News.

Sadly, nobody in the congregation was armed to return fire, but California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and guns are only carried by people who don't care about abiding by the law to prey on those who do.

He entered the Jewish place of worship and “[started] shooting in the air everywhere, and talking about the Mossad, and this and that, and craziness, and then he seems to [waiver] and leave,” Alon Chanukov, junior rabbi and vice president of the Schneerson Center, told CBS.

The outlet reported that Mishin is also a suspect in a similar incident that occurred on Tuesday night at a theater about a kilometer from the synagogue.

Investigators reportedly found evidence connecting Mishin to both incidents during a search of his home.

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