As news continues to surface about thePittsburg synagogue shootingthat has left 11 people dead and six injured, celebrities are mourning the loss of life and offering their condolences.
The shooting took place at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of the city, the Pittsburgh Public Safety Departmentannounced on Twitter. The department added that it will be prosecuted as a hate crime and the FBI will be leading the investigation.
No children were injured in the shooting, Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich announced at a press conference.
A law enforcement official confirmed to PEOPLE the suspect is Robert Bowers, 46. Police sources told KDKAthe shooter yelled, “All Jews must die” after entering the synagogue during the Saturday morning Shabbat service.
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Without specifically mentioning the tragic shooting, television hostEllen DeGeneresmade a call for everyone, no matter their political differences, to support one another.
“Today, I send out love to each and every one of you reading this. Every single one of you. We are one world. We all need love. We all want comfort. Let’s give it to each other,” she wrote.
In addition to honoring those who had lost their lives, some celebrities also spoke out againstPresident Donald Trump.
He went on to argue, “If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him.”
Vehemently disagreeing, former One Direction memberNiall Horanargued that the better solution would be for there to be “no guns at all.”
“Trump kept saying in his chat with reporters that if there was an armed guard inside the synagogue that the ‘numbers’ would have been a lot lower. The fact is if there was no guns at all, there wouldn’t have been a shooter in the first place,” he wrote. “Get a grip.”
“The guns are the long arm of this racist, sexist, anti-Semitic,anti-LGBT administration. the laws & judges being put in place are the longest arm. vote. them. Out,” she added in a separate tweet.
Trump has condemned the shooting as an act of anti-Semitism.
ThePittsburgh Public Safety Department tweeted, “Families of shooting victims can call 412-432-4400 for news of their loved ones. A Victims Assistance Center has been set up at Chatham University, Berry Hall, 106 Berry Street.”
source: people.com
