LOS ANGELES — Stephane Sultan, who owns a kosher restaurant on Pico Boulevard, knew his neighbors and customers were on edge because they kept confiding the same message.
Sultan said they were arming themselves after the shooting Wednesday of a man leaving a synagogue in Pico-Robertson.On Thursday morning, he was standing outside his restaurant, Trattoria Natalie, when he heard three pops. After watching police en route to the scene a few blocks away, he learned that another Jewish man had been shot after leaving worship services.
Tran, 28, was charged Friday with federal hate crimes. He admitted to police that he searched for a kosher market on Yelp before the shootings, according to a complaint unsealed in federal court in Los Angeles. If convicted, he faces life without parole in federal prison, prosecutors said. Officers on Thursday used his cellphone location to track him to Palm Springs; he was arrested by local police in adjacent Cathedral City after a report of a man firing a gun near a Honda Civic, according to the complaint.
He was caught July 3 carrying a loaded handgun onto the Cal State Long Beach campus, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Police got a call about a man with a gun near the engineering school and approached him. Tran surrendered and told officers he was carrying the weapon for protection, according to prosecutors. That case, for which he was out on bail, remains open.
Orthodox families fill the area’s dingbat apartments, duplexes and bungalows, and thousands jam the sidewalks Saturday mornings on their way to Torah services. “It’s always concerning when there’s antisemitic [violence], but we have faith that [God] is going to protect us,” said Jethro Da Silva, 55, as he left Ohel Moshe, a Persian synagogue.
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