‘Paralyzed with worry.’ Arrest follows gunshots in crowded synagogue, California cops say

A person accused of firing gunshots, presumably blanks, inside a busy Jewish synagogue in San Francisco has been arrested, California police reported.

Police arrested Dmitry Mission, 51, of San Francisco at 5 pm Friday, Feb. 3, KPIX reported.

He faces charges together with disturbing a spiritual meeting, brandishing an imitation firearm and inflicting one other to chorus from participating in a spiritual service, police mentioned in a information launch.

Mishin is accused of getting into a synagogue at 7:20 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, and firing a handgun a number of occasions earlier than working away, police mentioned. Nobody was damage.

Police recovered a number of shell casings, presumably from blanks, on the synagogue.

A security video aired by KGO reveals a person enter the synagogue and hearth off a number of pictures.

“Individuals didn’t even depart their chairs,” Matthew Finkelstein of the Schneerson Jewish Middle instructed KGO. “This man was wielding a gun. It’s as a result of they have been paralyzed with worry.”

Finkelstein instructed the station that nobody within the synagogue acknowledged the gunman.

“In my thoughts, what he did was he got here and he did a terrorist assault,” Rabbi Alon Chanukov instructed KGO. “He got here to terrorize folks.”

On Tuesday, Jan. 31, police suspect Mishin additionally brandished a firearm inside a theater close to the synagogue, the discharge mentioned.

After an investigation, police recognized MIshin as a suspect in each incidents and arrested him, the discharge mentioned. A search of his dwelling revealed proof linked to the incidents, police mentioned.

Police ask that anybody with data depart a tip at 1-415-575-4444.

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