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Jerusalem gay pride parade attacker convicted of murder

Yishai Schlissel, who fatally stabbed a teenage girl and wounded others at last year Jerusalem's gay pride parade, reads scripture at court in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The District Court convicted Schlissel for murder for last year’s deadly attack, along with multiple attempted murder charges for those he wounded. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Yishai Schlissel, who fatally stabbed a teenage girl and wounded others at last year Jerusalem's gay pride parade, reads scripture at court in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The District Court convicted Schlissel for murder for last year’s deadly attack, along with multiple attempted murder charges for those he wounded. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

By Associated Press April 19, 2016 2 min read

JERUSALEM (AP) – A Jerusalem court on Tuesday convicted an ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jew of murder for fatally stabbing a teenage girl at a gay pride parade last year.

Yishai Schlissel was also convicted on multiple charges of attempted murder for the people he wounded in the 2015 attack.

Schlissel, who had been freed from prison weeks earlier after serving a sentence for stabbing several people at the city’s pride parade in 2005, stabbed six people at the July 30 parade. One of them, 16-year-old Shira Banki, later died of her wounds.

A hearing in June will set a timetable for future sentencing. He could face life in prison.

“The accused did not learn from the legal proceedings against him 10 years ago and from the long time he served in prison. He returned and he committed these crimes with an ideology of hate,” said prosecutor Oshrat Shoham.