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Jersey City shooting footage shows ‘anti-Semitic’ gunman and partner opening fire on kosher store after leaving note
CHILLING footage shows the moment an apparently "anti-Semitic" gunman and his partner opened fire on a kosher store in Jersey City.
David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, drove their U-Haul to JC Kosher Supermarket and parked it across the street before shooting dead four people on Tuesday.
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The shooter is seen exiting the van with his rifle drawn within seconds of parking it before he opens fire at the Jewish deli.
Panicked residents take cover at nearby stores and scatter throughout the streets, running away as shots continue to ring and the gunman's partner follows him into the market.
One man was able to flee the scene as the killers entered the store, but Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, Moshe Hirsch Deutsch, 24, and Miguel Douglas, 49, were all shot dead before authorities arrived.
The video emerged the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order including discrimination against Jews as a violation of law in certain circumstances in an effort to crack down on anti-Semitism.
Police found a handwritten manifesto-style note the allegedly anti-Semitic attackers left behind in their stolen U-Haul.
The note reads: "I do this because my creator makes me do this and I hate who he hates," law enforcement officials told the .
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Anderson allegedly had a connection to the Black Hebrew Israelites, a black nationalist group who believe they're descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel but deny that whites are among them.
Although the faction isn't known for committing mass acts of violence, it is believed to be anti-Semitic and is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, according to the .
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.
One of the postings include the statement "Blacks are jews, the "jewish" are impostors," according to .
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Anderson and Graham were allegedly familiar with the community because they both lived in it, and the pair knew exactly where to target Jews, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop said Wednesday.
Both were shot dead by police following a two-hour standoff with armor-clad SWAT officers and local cops.
In recent years, Orthodox Jews have been moving to Jersey City's Greenville neighborhood, where the shooting took place.
Tuesday's attack happened just six months after a deadly attack at a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, California and nearly a year after 11 people were slaughtered at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The October 2018 Pittsburgh massacre is the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.
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Despite attempts to quell anti-Israel sentiments, anti-Semitic attacks in the US are at a record high.
Within the first half of 2019, 780 cases of anti-Semitism occurred at synagogue and other Jewish institutions, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
It's the third consecutive year with a historically high number of anti-Semitic incidents, the ADL said.
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