Chris Foster

Jackson Mayor John Horne calls it an act of terror and says the city stands with the Beth Israel congregation.

Its president, Zach Schemper, says in a statement, We are thankful to the fire department, law enforcement, and to everyone checking in on our community.

No one's reported to have been injured in the fire early Saturday.

Parts of the building are destroyed, and there's one suspect in custody.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center Jewish Human Rights Organization calls the fire an assault on the heart of Jewish life in the South.

The Council on American Islamic Relations says in a statement, houses of worship should always be places of peace and safety, never targets of hatred or violence.

The synagogue was attacked once before, firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967.

Chris Foster, Fox News.

Nikita Cassis shot and killed his parents at their home in Waukesha, Wisconsin last February.

Their bodies were found about two weeks later by police doing a welfare check.

Cassis, 17 years old then, 18 now...

was arrested in Kansas driving his stepfather's SUV with $14,000 in cash, jewelry, passports, his stepfather's gun, and the family dog.

Prosecutors say he wanted the money and freedom from his parents to fund a plan to assassinate President Trump, a plan that he'd told other people about.

He'd originally pled not guilty.

The conviction comes with two mandatory life sentences.

A judge will decide in March if Cassis will ever be eligible for parole.

Chris Foster, Fox News.