On March 1 , 1994 , Lebanese-born Rashid Baz opened fire on a van carrying members of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Movement , striking 16-year-old student Ari Halberstam and three others traveling on the bridge . Halberstam died five days later from his wounds , and Baz was later convicted of murder . Baz was apparently acting out of revenge for the Hebron massacre of 29 Palestinian Muslims by Baruch Goldstein that had taken place a few days earlier on February 25 , 1994 . After initially classifying the killing as one committed out of road rage , the Justice Department reclassified the case in 2000 as a terrorist attack . The entrance ramp to the bridge on the Manhattan side was subsequently named the Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp . Several attacks or disasters have also been stopped . In 1979 , police disarmed a stick of dynamite placed under the Brooklyn approach ; an artist in Manhattan was later arrested for the act . In 2003 , truck driver Iyman Faris was sentenced to about 20 years in prison for providing material support to Al-Qaeda , after an earlier plot to destroy the bridge by cutting through its support wires with blowtorches was thwarted
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1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting
Brooklyn Bridge