Student helps raise $540K for synagogue shooting victims

WASHINGTON (AP) — A graduate student in the nation’s capital set out to raise $500 for the victims of a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Now he’s increased the goal to $1 million.
Shay Khatiri’s fundraiser had raised nearly $545,000 as of Monday morning. The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies student says the funds will go directly to the Tree of Life congregation, where a gunman killed 11 people on Saturday.
WJLA-TV reports that the 29-year-old Kha