Khatiri, a graduate student at John Hopkins University, does not himself live in Pittsburgh. However, a conversation with a Jewish friend spurred him to begin the account.
Shay Khatiri, an Iranian immigrant to the United States, has raised more than $1 million for Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Congregation, the synagogue that was the site of the deadly Shabbat morning shooting that left 11 dead. “Honestly, after what has happened with this fundraising, I don’t think I’m ever going to be surprised by someone’s generosity,” Khatiri told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a Thursday interview, as the GoFundMe account he had begun in the wake of the October 26 shooting by antisemitic assailant Robert Bowers.
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