The plot to shoot up a Manhattan synagogue was thwarted by a Jewish online security analyst, who came across chilling tweets foreshadowing the planned attack, and told the Police Department.The NYPD arrested Christopher Brown, 21, and Matthew Mahrer, 22, and seized weapons at Penn Station, stopping the potentially deadly threat against the city's Jewish community.A now defunct handle @VrilGod linked to Brown had been the platform for a series of alarming tweets which were caught by the analyst's filters used to identify possible online threats.
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