Synagogue hate crime suspect an educated, suburban accountant

Stuart Wright has two tattoos. On his left arm is the phrase "Jesus Is Love," according to police. On his right shoulder, a swastika.

Wright, 31, was charged with a hate crime alleging he smashed the window of a downtown synagogue and put swastika stickers on its doors in early February. Three months earlier, he alarmed members when he visited a Pilsen church, one that was a target of racist vandalism six times in 2016.

Wright graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in 2003 and went on to the University of Iowa. He later received a master's degree in accounting from DePaul University.

Anti-Semitic incidents have been increasingly visible in recent months. Three Jewish cemeteries across the country were vandalized within one week in February, and several dozen Jewish community centers, including one in Hyde Park, have received bomb threats since the beginning of the year.

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