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Fears Mount That New Jersey Shooting Might Have Been Anti-Semitic Attack

Associated Press

   JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Fears mounted Wednesday that a deadly shooting at a
   Jewish market in Jersey City was an anti-Semitic attack as authorities
   recounted how a man and woman deliberately pulled up to the place in a
   rental van with at least one rifle and got out firing.

   A day after the gun battle and standoff that left six people dead --
   the two killers, a police officer and three people who had been inside
   the store -- state and federal law enforcement officials warned they
   have not established the motive for the attack.

   "The why and the ideology and the motivation -- that's what we're
   investigating," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said, adding
   that authorities are also trying to determine if anyone else was
   involved.

   But Mayor Steve Fulop said surveillance video of the attackers made it
   clear they targeted the kosher market, and he pronounced the bloodshed
   a hate crime against Jews, as did New York's mayor and governor.

   Also, investigators believe the two dead attackers -- who were believed
   to be a couple -- identified themselves in the past as Black Hebrew
   Israelites, a movement whose members have been known to rail against
   whites and Jews, according to a law enforcement official who was
   briefed on the matter but was not authorized to discuss the case
   publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

   In addition, authorities have found social media postings from at least
   one of the killers that were anti-police and anti-Jewish, the official
   said. The FBI on Wednesday searched the Harlem headquarters of the
   Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, which is the formal name of
   the Black Hebrew group, according to the official.

   The killers were identified as David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine
   Graham, 50 -- both of them also prime suspects in the slaying of a
   livery driver found dead in car trunk in nearby Bayonne over the
   weekend, Grewal said. Anderson served about four months in prison in
   New Jersey on weapons charges and was paroled in 2011, authorities
   said.

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