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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 14 January 2020
Authorities: Kosher

store shooters planned

attack for months

By DAVID PORTER customer to escape before
Associated Press he was shot, authorities said
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Monday.
two people who fatally Five weapons and hun-
shot a police officer then dreds of rounds of ammu-
killed three people at a nition were found in the
kosher grocery in Jersey store afterward. Investiga-
City planned an assault tors also found a bomb
for some time and were in the couple's van that
equipped to cause greater could have sprayed shrap-
destruction, authorities said nel fragments "five football
Monday. fields long," Gregory Ehrie,
State and federal law special agent in charge of
enforcement officials re- the FBI in Newark, said. The
vealed details about the van also contained materi- U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito, center, speaks at a new conference to provide an update on the
months leading up to the als that could have made Dec. 10 Jersey City shootings at the FBI headquarters in Newark, N.J., Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.
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shootings by David Ander- a second bomb, he said.
son and Francine Graham, It's not known for certain Rumberger, 34, officials Hasidic man on a highway plored the FBI's targeting of
a couple who expressed what prompted the con- said, though it wasn't clear near Jersey City, the investi- individuals involved in the
hatred of Jews and law en- frontation between Seals if he had been targeted. gation revealed. That man civil rights movement in the
forcement in notes left at and the shooters. Officials The pair also had done was not injured. 1960s, Carpenito said. He
the grocery shooting scene speculated that Seals, a online research on a Jew- That shooting wasn't report- added that a timestamp
and in online posts. 13-year veteran who was ish center in nearby Bay- ed until investigators be- written on the note corre-
"This was a senseless and meeting someone about onne in the days before gan probing the the mar- sponded to a segment in
cowardly act," U.S. Attor- returning a car that had the attack in Jersey City, ket shootings. the documentary where
ney Craig Carpenito said. been impounded, may Carpenito said. "Up until the attack, there an interviewee advocates
Anderson, 47, and Gra- have stopped the U-Haul Barricaded in the kosher wasn't anything that would killing "fascist pig cops."
ham, 50, shot and killed Jer- van Anderson and Graham store, Anderson and Gra- have put either of them Investigators found among
sey City Detective Joseph were driving because it fit ham were killed after a on anybody's radar," Ehrie Anderson's social media
Seals in a chance meet- the description of a vehicle lengthy gun battle with the said. posts a reference to Jews
ing in a cemetery Dec. 10, connected to the slaying police that sent the sound But surveillance video as "imposters who inhab-
then drove to the market of a livery car driver in Bay- of gunfire booming for showed Anderson and ited synagogues of Satan."
and killed Mindel Ferencz, onne a few days earlier. hours through the neigh- Graham had driven past Anderson received about
31, who owned the store In doing so, Seals may have borhood in New Jersey's the market in their rented $560 per month as a mili-
with her husband; Moshe thrown off their plans and second-largest city, across U-Haul van twice in the tary veteran and may have
Deutsch, 24, a rabbinical prevented more blood- the street from a school. week leading up to the sold property and a van
student from Brooklyn who shed, Carpenito said, but A gun recovered at the ko- shootings, Carpenito said. to make money, officials
was shopping there; and he did not provide more sher grocery that was used At the scene, a note found said, but investigators have
store employee Douglas detail. by Anderson and Graham on Anderson contained a found no evidence he re-
Miguel Rodriguez. Anderson and Graham to kill Rumberger also was reference to a 1990s docu- ceived outside assistance
Rodriguez held the back bludgeoned and then shot used to shoot out the win- mentary, "The FBI's War on to purchase weapons or
door open for a wounded the livery driver Michael dows of a car driven by a Black America," which ex- bomb-making materials.q

Florida lawmakers debate if college athletes can be paid

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN for the NCAA . But none of particularly with California
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — that money is allowed to colleges that might now
Florida lawmakers began go to college athletes. have an advantage in
considering on Monday Similar efforts are underway recruiting marquee play-
whether they would allow in Georgia, Maryland, New ers to their programs. That
college athletes to profit York, South Carolina and would be a big concern in
from their fame, a move Washington, among others. sports-rabid states such as
that comes as the NCAA Members of Congress may Florida, which has some of
looks into possibly removing also be taking up the effort. the country's highest-profile
its longstanding prohibition Under pressure, the NCAA sports programs.
against it. Florida would last fall announced that it NCAA rules have long pre-
follow the lead of Califor- would take action to lift the vented players from hiring
nia, which last year ignored money-making ban for the agents. The California law
pleas by the NCAA to keep 450,000 athletes under its prevents athletes from los-
the prohibitions in place. purview. But it did not com- ing scholarships or being
The NCAA had argued Rep. Kionne McGhee, D- Miami, listens Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, mit to a specific timeline for thrown off teams because
that allowing the practice during a combined meeting of House Commerce, Education doing so. As a result, Florida of endorsement deals. The
"would erase the critical dis- and Judiciary Committees to discuss equal treatment of student and other states are press- law won't go into effect un-
tinction between college athletes at the Knott Building in Tallahassee, Fla. ing ahead, just in case the til 2023, which was meant
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and professional athletics" NCAA later balks. to give the NCAA time to
and would give California advantage. billions of dollars in revenue, But there's also the mat- take its own steps to ad-
schools an unfair recruiting College sports generat e including $1 billion annually ter of staying competitive, dress the issue. q