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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Prosecutors will have a recording of a 20-year-old's call to an emergency dispatcher and his online posts when they try to convince a judge that he should be put on trial for opening fire in a Southern California synagogue, killing one woman and injuring three people.
A preliminary hearing for John T. Earnest begins Thursday in state court in San Diego.
Earnest has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and arson tied to a mosque fire. The murder charge would make him eligible for the death penalty if convicted.
Court documents say the college student called 911 as he fled Chabad of Poway on April 27, saying, "I just shot up a synagogue," and that he did it because he believed Jews were destroying "the white race."
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