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Utah man sentenced to prison for shooting at synagogue


Macon Openshaw
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Hate crime » Macon Michael Openshaw will serve 60 months in federal prison.

The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Jul 15 2014 05:02 pm • Updated 6 hours ago

A Cottonwood area man was sentenced Tuesday to serve 60 months in federal prison for a hate-motivated attack at a Salt Lake City synagogue and for two unlawful gun possession charges.

Macon Michael Openshaw, 22, also was ordered to pay $1,969 in restitution to the Congregation Kol Ami synagogue for damage he caused in 2012. He must serve three years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.

In April, Openshaw pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to the civil rights violation of damaging the synagogue and to the gun charges.

Judge Tena Campbell on Tuesday sentenced Openshaw to the maximum possible prison time.

As part of his plea, Openshaw admitted to firing three rounds from a .22-caliber handgun at the synagogue. There was no one inside at the time, but the bullets broke windows and damaged the building, according to court documents.

Openshaw said he shot the synagogue because of its religious character, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Openshaw also admitted to possessing a handgun with a destroyed serial number, which was the same handgun he used to shoot the synagogue. He also admitted to possessing several firearms and ammunition while he was subject to a protective order.

"Every person living in Utah has the right to be free from intimidating and threatening conduct," said Acting U.S. Attorney Carlie Christensen for the District of Utah. "The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah has a strong history of prosecuting those who violate the civil rights of others in our communities."

Copyright 2014 The Salt Lake Tribune

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White Supremacist Arrested For Shooting Salt Lake City Synagogue



November 1, 2013

On Octo­ber 30, a fed­eral grand jury indicted white suprema­cist, Macon Michael Open­shaw, 21, on charges related to an early 2012 inci­dent in which he allegedly defaced and dam­aged the Kol Ami syn­a­gogue in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The indict­ment alleges that Open­shaw, of Salt Lake City, was moti­vated by hate when he fired sev­eral rounds at the syn­a­gogue, break­ing win­dows and dam­ag­ing the build­ing. Author­i­ties charged Open­shaw with a civil rights vio­la­tion and sev­eral gun pos­ses­sion crimes. He has pleaded not guilty.

On Storm­front, a white suprema­cist on-line forum, Open­shaw claimed mem­ber­ship in a local racist skin­head crew. He also claimed alle­giance to the now-defunct Vin­land Folk Patri­ots whose mis­sion, accord­ing to their Web site, was to awaken the white race “to the detri­men­tal and ulti­mately cat­a­strophic real­ity of racial extinction.”

In his pro­lific on-line pres­ence, Open­shaw uses the numeric sym­bols 14 and 88. The 14 refers to the “14 words,” a white suprema­cist mantra about pre­serv­ing the white race and “88” sig­ni­fies the eighth let­ter of the alpha­bet, “HH,” which stands for “Heil Hitler.” He also uses SWP, a com­mon acronym used by racists to sig­nify “Supreme White Power.” Addi­tion­ally, Open­shaw has sub­scribed to many white suprema­cist videos on YouTube.

On the white suprema­cist social net­work­ing Web site Newsaxon, Open­shaw praised the Aryan Brotherhood’s use of vio­lence. He also wrote,“this is a war, the goal, death to zog. even if it means get­ting dirty.” ZOG is a white suprema­cist acronym for Zion­ist Occu­pied Government.

Open­shaw has a crim­i­nal his­tory, which includes pos­ses­sion of a deadly weapon.

© 2013 Anti-Defamation League

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