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Chicago hate crime shooting suspect researched Jewish targets, had pro-Hamas material on his phone: prosecutor

An illegal migrant accused of shooting an Orthodox Jewish man on his way to a Chicago Synagogue used his cellphone to search for synagogues and Jewish community centers in the area.

AnillegalmigrantaccusedofshootinganOrthodox Jewishman multipletimesashemadehiswaytoaChicagoSynagoguelastmonthusedhiscellphonetoscourforsynagoguesandJewishcommunitycentersintheareashortlybeforetheattack,accordingtoFox32Chicago.Hiscellphonealsocontainedmorethan100“antisemiticandpro-Hamas”imagesandvideos,accordingtotheChicagoSunTimescitingpolice.  SidiMohamedAbdallahi,aMauritaniannational,hasbeenhitwithhatecrimeandterrorismchargesfortheOct.26attackinwhichheisaccusedofshootinga39-year-oldJewishmanwhowaswearingakippahwhilewalking tohissynagogueinChicago’sWestRogersParkneighborhood.Thevictimwasstruckintheshoulder. Abdallahi, policesaid,wasidentifiedlessthan30minutesaftertheshooting,atwhichpointheallegedlyshotatrespondersbeforepolice“returnedfire,strikingtheoffender.”Abdallahiwashospitalizedwithmultiple