As the 19-year-old college student sped away in his 2012 Honda Civic, he dialed 911 and said: “I just shot up a synagogue.”
He told the dispatcher that he thought he had killed some people and that he did it “because Jewish people are destroying the white race.”
The chilling account in a federal affidavit unsealed Thursday was the most detailed yet of a gunman’s attack on a Southern California synagogue that killed a woman and wounded three others during Passover service last month in the San Diego suburb of Poway.
It describes a deeply disturbed man filled with hatred who claimed to be inspired by the attacks on the mosques in New Zealand and the shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue last fall.
During the 911 call, Earnest said he killed because he was “trying to defend my nation from the Jewish people … They’re destroying our people,” according to the affidavit.
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