{"id":324589,"date":"2026-08-19T02:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324589\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:18:11","slug":"lunatic-who-stormed-nyc-synagogue-said-attack-was-racial-and-had-religious-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324589\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunatic who stormed NYC synagogue said attack was ‘racial and had ‘religious’ motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The antisemtic nutjob who stormed a Manhattan synagogue <\/a>during Shabbat and ambushed two people told police his outburst was \u201call religious motivated\u201d \u2014 as feds charged the madman Tuesday with hate crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Larry Montes, 46, made the chilling confession after his arrest for the hate-filled attack inside Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan on Aug. 14, admitting to cops that the assault was \u201ca racial thing\u201d and \u201call religious motivated,\u201d prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Larry Montes, 46, made the chilling confessions to authorities after his brutal attack inside Central Synagogue.\u00a0 Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n

Montes\u2019 admission came out in a post-arrest interview, according to prosecutors.\u00a0 Facebook\/Larry Montes<\/p>\n

Montes\u2019 rant to cops also included antisemitic and anti-Israel statements, including telling them \u201cf\u2014 the Jews.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never affiliate with no filthy f\u2014ing synagogues, either here or in f\u2014ing Israel,\u201d he raged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never affiliate with no filthy f\u2014ing synagogues, either here or in f\u2014ing Israel,\u201d Montes told police.\u00a0 Facebook\/Larry Montes<\/p>\n

\u201cAn attack on a house of worship is an attack on the fundamental right to practice one\u2019s faith safely,\u201d Jamie McDonald, US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Montes\u2019 onslaught began at the beginning of a Shabbat service around 6 p.m., when the creep began shouting obscenities that stunned the nearly 375 congregants, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

Montes launched toward the temple\u2019s pulpit, knocking over two candlesticks, according to the complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Montes\u2019 hate-filled attack began around 6 p.m. during Shabbat service on Aug. 14, according to a criminal complaint.\u00a0 Central Synagogue<\/p>\n

The synagogue\u2019s head of security then rushed to restrain the madman, who screamed \u201cI don\u2019t f\u2014 with you people\u201d \u2014 and socked a woman in her 60s in the face knocking her to the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The security guard dragged Montes to the front of the synagogue, where an NYPD officer cuffed the crazed loon, the complaint reads.<\/p>\n

But prosecutors said even while Montes was restrained, he continued to spew hate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While cuffed, Montes screamed \u201cf\u2014 you [n-word]\u201d at a black man in the synagogue, before spitting in his face and headbutting him, according to the complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The synagogue\u2019s head of security rushed to restrain Montes, who screamed \u201cI don\u2019t f\u2014 with you people.\u201d\u00a0 Central Synagogue<\/p>\n

The manaic also threated worshippers that he planned to return at a later date, as cops rushed him out of the synagogue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Montes is charged with two counts of committing hate crimes and one count of damage to religious property resulting in bodily injury.<\/p>\n

If convicted on all counts, Montes could face up to 40 years in state prison. <\/p>\n

\u201c[O]ur Office will work tirelessly to ensure the defendant is held fully accountable as we continue to protect all communities from hate\u2011driven violence,\u201d McDonald added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The antisemtic nutjob who stormed a Manhattan synagogue during Shabbat and ambushed two people told police his outburst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,10685,75,57,9,24,55,54,56,9500,58],"class_list":["post-324589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-hate-crimes","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-synagogues","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}