On Yom Kippur, the holiest of days — a time set apart for atonement and inward turning — an armed confrontation erupted outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, shattering the silence that the day demands. A police officer and a gunman were both wounded in an exchange of up to thirty shots, the suspect left in critical condition. The timing and the place together ask an old and unresolved question: what does a society owe those who gather, in good faith, simply to pray?
Officer wounded in shooting outside Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur
A police officer and a suspect were wounded in the shooting; the suspect was reported to be in critical condition.