Seattle, Washington – Jewish Federation employee Molly Bennett was called by prosecutors because she found a bullet casing in a candy dish on her desk some time after the shooting.

But the real points made with this witness came on cross-examination, when she testified there was a certain apathy about the attacker, that he did not seem to care what happened, and also did not make any specifically anti-Semitic comments.

A computer expert told jurors about a series of Google searches conducted on the defendant’s computer. Five days before the shooting, Naveed Haq seemed fascinated by research on statistical differences between Jewish and Arab people; among his search terms were “arab americans in congress,” and “number of jews in israel.”

The evening before the Jewish Federation attack, his focus had shifted, and his searches narrowed eerily during 16 minutes from a general search for Jewish organizations and events, to “current jewish federation events” – and, eventually, the Mapquest directions to the federation’s Seattle offices.

– In Session staff