Perpetrator (35) of attack at Synagogue in Manchester was ‘Weightlifter who barely spoke with neighbors’

More information is known about Jihad Al-Shamie, the man who committed an attack on Thursday at a synagogue in Manchester. The 35-year-old Brit of Syrian descent lived near the city and, according to his neighbors, was an avid weightlifer that was not too social. According to the newspaper The Guardian, Al-Shamie was free on bail.

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