On the holiest of Jewish fast days, a man with a soldier's training and a conspiracist's grievances opened fire outside an Ontario synagogue, wounding a police officer before dying at the scene. The deliberate timing — Yom Kippur, when Jewish communities gather in their greatest numbers — led investigators to examine the attack as a possible hate crime. It is a moment that asks an old and painful question anew: how does a society recognize the moment a fringe belief becomes a lethal one, and what does it owe to those it fails to protect?
Ex-Canadian soldier opens fire at Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur, wounds officer
One police officer was wounded in the shooting; the suspect died during the incident.
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