A Southern California man charged with shooting and wounding two Jewish men as they left synagogues in Los Angeles last year was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

The February 2023 shootings raised fears among the city’s Jewish community after officials said the victims were targeted because they wore clothing that identified their faith, including black coats and head coverings. Both men survived.

Former Riverside resident Jaime Tran, 30, pleaded guilty in June to two counts of hate crimes with intent to kill and two counts of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

“After years of spewing antisemitic vitriol, the defendant planned and carried out a two-day attack attempting to murder Jews leaving synagogue in Los Angeles,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

Tran told law enforcement that he looked online for a “kosher market” and decided to shoot someone nearby, according to an FBI affidavit.

Tran had a “history of antisemitic and threatening conduct,” the affidavit said, citing a review of emails, text messages and unspecified reports.

“Targeting people for death based solely on their religious and ethnic background brings back memories of the darkest chapters in human history,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said. “We hope the sentence imposed today sends a strong message to all in our community that we will not tolerate antisemitism and hate of any sort.”

In 2022, the FBI affidavit said, Tran emailed former classmates using insulting language about Jewish people and also threatened a Jewish former classmate, repeatedly sending messages like “Someone is going to kill you, Jew” and “I want you dead, Jew.”

“As millions of Jewish Americans prepare to observe the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Justice Department reaffirms its commitment to aggressively confronting, disrupting, and prosecuting criminal acts motivated by antisemitism, or by hatred of any kind,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in the statement. “No Jewish person in America should have to fear that any sign of their identity will make them the victim of a hate crime.”

Police activity connected to a break-in early Monday at a pharmacy closed the 710 Freeway at the Long Beach International Gateway bridge.

Police responded to the break-in in Wilmington at about 4:20 a.m. Several people who attempted to break into the pharmacy led police on a chase that ended on the bridge.

The bridge, which connects downtown Long Beach and Terminal Island, was closed early Monday.

One of six to eight people sought in the burglary was taken into custody, police said.

The bridge, a replace for the historic Gerald Desmond Bridge, opened to traffic in October 2020. It was officially named the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge by the California Legislature in August 2022.

About 15 percent of the nation’s imported waterborne cargo is trucked over the bridge.

Part of the 710 Freeway was closed for several hours at the Long Beach International Gateway bridge Monday morning after a pursuit that stemmed from a carjacking and break-in at a Wilmington pharmacy.

The series of crimes began with a carjacking reported at about 3:30 a.m. The passenger, who was still inside the car was released shortly after the carjacking.

The car was then used in a pharmacy break-in reported at about 4:20 a.m. in the 200 block of Anaheim Street in Wilmington.

Pharmacy owner Ash Soliman said the burglars got away with a bottle of cold medicine. He called police after seeing the crime on video from his security camera, which showed about 11 people getting out of the carjacked Mercedes-Benz.

“What I would suggest to other pharmacy owners, as well as other business owners, don’t skimp out on your security systems,” Soliman said, adding that this was the sixth break-in in two years at the pharmacy.

Several people involved in the burglary then led police on a chase that ended on the Long Beach International Gateway bridge connecting downtown Long Beach and Terminal Island.

Occupants ran from the vehicle in the area of Pier T in Long Beach. Eight people were taken into custody, but authorities were searching for at least one more person, police said.

“LAPD SWAT responded and is searching for a suspect who was seen on a catwalk under the… bridge,” the LAPD statement said. “No suspects are believed to have jumped into the water or from the bridge.”

Search teams on boats were in the water under the bridge.

The 710 Freeway was closed at the bridge at about 6:30 a.m. Monday for the investigation and search. Details about when it will reopen were not immediately available.

Video from the scene of the pharmacy burglar showed a shattered front window at the business. Details about what, if anything, was taken were not immediately available.

The bridge, a replacement for the historic Gerald Desmond Bridge, opened to traffic in October 2020. It was officially named the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge by the California Legislature in August 2022.

About 15 percent of the nation’s imported waterborne cargo is trucked over the cable-stayed bridge with a deck that rises 205 feet above the water.

Late last week, the Vincent Thomas Bridge in nearby San Pedro was closed due to an big rig rollover crash and lithium ion battery fire.