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Shooters may have been targeting 50 children in yeshiva, Jersey City mayor suggests

DEFINITION:  yeshiva

an Orthodox Jewish school for the religious and secular education of children of elementary school age.

From NJ dot Com, by Reporters Jeff Goldman and Rebecca Panico, 13 December 2019.

Here is the lede plus one:

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said Friday it’s his opinion that the shooters who killed a police officer and three civilians on Tuesday afternoon had an even more sinister objective - killing students at a religious school next door.

“My opinion is that as more info comes out it’ll become increasingly clear that the target was the 50 children at the Yeshiva attached to that store,” the mayor wrote on Twitter just after 8 a.m. “We will never know 100% but the doorway to the yeshiva was 3 feet away (and) it seems he goes in that direction 1st.”

SO, it could have been much worse.

The Mayor is correct when he praises the police from making sure it wasn't much worse.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff