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Tennessee judge orders a mental evaluation for a man charged with shooting at a Jewish school

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By ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A lawyer says a Tennessee judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a man charged with trying to enter a Jewish school with a gun and firing it at a contractor there before he was shot by police. Mitch Wood is Joel Bowman’s lawyer. Wood says Judge Karen Massey issued an order on Tuesday for a psychological evaluation for Bowman. Police said Bowman went on July 31 to Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South school in Memphis with a gun and tried to get inside, but he was denied entry. Police said Bowman walked around the school’s exterior and fired two shots at a contractor, who was not hit.

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