Ari Halberstam

 

 

Age: 16

 

Summary: yeshiva student who had been hospitalized in extremely critical condition from multiple gunshot wounds to the head as a result of the massive brain injuries suffered in the March 1 Brooklyn Bridge shooting spree that also critically wounded three other Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students when a gunman on a passenger van carrying more than a dozen other Hasidic students returning back to their homes in Brooklyn while travelling on the entrance ramp via the Brooklyn Bridge after visiting the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson in a Manhattan hospital during an apparent retaliation for the recent massacre of 29 Muslim worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs mosque in the Palestinian city of Hebron by a radical Jewish settler.

 

 

Cause of Death: Gunshot wounds sustained in a terrorist shooting

 

Born: May 6, 1977

 

Died: March 6, 1994

 

Location: New York City, New York