Macon Michael Openshaw Indicted for SLC Synagogue Shooting

AP
November 5, 2013

Macon Michael Openshaw.
Macon Michael Openshaw.

A federal grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old Salt Lake City man on gun and hate crime charges after windows were shot out of a Utah synagogue last year.

Macon Michael Openshaw was accused in the indictment filed Wednesday of intentionally shooting at the Congregation Kol Ami synagogue in Salt Lake City sometime between Jan. 1, 2012, and April 30, 2012.

“We (are) convinced that we can prove that he targeted it because of its religious affiliation,” Melodie Rydalch, spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney David Barlow, told The Salt Lake Tribune.

She didn’t provide any additional details about a motive.

Openshaw’s attorney, federal defender Kristen Angelos, was not immediately available for comment on Thursday.

The charges against Openshaw include using a gun in relation to a crime, possessing a firearm with an altered serial number, and possessing a firearm while subject to a protective order.

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