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The Uncle of Rashid Baz, who shot at a van of Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students traveling on the Brooklyn Bridge. The shooting killed one student and injured three others. Bassam Reyati owned the car Baz used to commit the crime. He was convicted of concealing evidence and was sentenced to 5 years of probation and a $1,000 fine.

The massacre, which killed between 762 and 3,500 civilians – Palestinian and Lebanese Shiites – was carried out by a militia connected to the Kataeb Party, with help from Israeli allies. The Party claimed that the motive of the massacre was the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party.