On October 8, 1977, a tragic event unfolded in Richmond Heights, a suburb of Saint Louis, Missouri, shattering the peace of a local congregation. Gerald Gordon, a 42-year-old Jewish male, was attending a bar mitzvah ceremony at the Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue. As the service concluded and guests began to exit the building, a hidden gunman lay in wait in the tall grass nearby, armed with a high-powered hunting rifle.
As Gordon walked through the synagogue's parking lot, the snipe
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