Pittsburgh suspect appears in court.

PITTSBURGH – The long-haul trucker accused of fatally shooting 11 worshippers in a hate-driven rampage at a local synagogue made a brief court appearance in a wheelchair Monday and was ordered back for a preliminary hearing Thursday.

Robert Bowers, 46, was assigned a court-appointed lawyer and waived a reading of the charges he faces. He was being held without bail for the attack the Anti-Defamation League called the deadliest against the Jewish community in U.S. history.

Bowers, who was wounded in a gunfight with police during Saturday’s carnage at Tree of Life Synagogue, was released from a local hospital hours before the hearing.

Scott Brady, the U.S. attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania, said after the hearing that the case would be presented to a federal grand jury within 30 days.

In court documents filed just prior to the hearing, prosecutors described Bowers as a danger to the community. Prosecutors want Bowers held without bail, asserting that “no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure” his appearance at future court hearings.

Brady earlier said he has begun the process of gaining the approval of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to pursue a death penalty case against Bowers. President Trump has expressed support for Brady’s position, saying that “when people do this, they should get the death penalty. And they shouldn’t have to wait years and years.”

Brady said searches of Bowers’ apartment in Baldwin, about 10 miles south of the Squirrel Hill neighborhood where the shooting took place, and his vehicle were being conducted.

Authorities say Bowers, armed with a semiautomatic rifle and three handguns, burst into the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue on Saturday, shouting anti-Semitic epithets and opening fire on the congregants. Bowers was subsequently wounded in a shootout with police that left four officers injured, police say.