Was the young man a violent extremist hellbent on revenge for a mass shooting of Muslims in New Zealand or a “lost soul” who was abandoned by a drug-addicted mother before undercover FBI operatives stoked his anger into violence?

That’s the central question jurors are being asked to answer in the trial of Mark Steven Domingo, the 28-year-old Reseda man accused of trying to kill as many people as possible by planting bombs at a rally in Long Beach’s Bluff Park.

Domingo is charged with providing material support to terrorists and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction when he targeted an April 2019 rally in Long Beach where hundreds of protesters showed up to counter a planned White-nationalist rally that never materialized.

Domingo didn’t care whom he killed, he just wanted “more bodies,” he told FBI agents after his arrest. Plus, he explained, setting off explosions during a clash between far-right and far-left activists could create more chaos.

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