Jason Kurosu
City News Service
The young man charged with carrying out a hate-motivated shooting at the Chabad of Poway that killed one woman and injured three others pleaded guilty Sept. 13 to all 113 federal charges filed against him, and is slated to be sentenced in both state and federal courts later this year for the deadly attack.
John Timothy Earnest, 22, admitted to the April 27, 2019, shooting, in which 60-year-old Lori Gilbert Kaye was killed after being shot twice in the synagogue’s foyer. Kaye, a longtime member of Chabad of Poway, was at the
temple with her husband and daughter to honor her mother, who had recently died.
The congregation’s rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein, lost a finger in the shooting. Two other people – Almog Peretz and his then-8-year-old niece, Noya Dah
