A man accused of firing off blank rounds in a Jewish synagogue in San Francisco’s Richmond District last week has been charged with multiple hate crime felonies, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Dmitri Mishin, 51, was arrested last Friday after he allegedly entered the Schneerson Center synagogue on Feb. 1 in the 2600 block of Balboa Street, made a verbal statement, then pulled out a gun and fired several shots inside the building.
Just one day before the synagogue shooting, workers at the Balboa Theater, a movie theater located only a few blocks away in the 3600 block of Balboa Street, called the police on reports of a man entering the