A man says a group of teenagers threatened to kill him while he was on his way to pray at synagogue – all because he’s Jewish.

Ande Mass told WAOI (News4), that the group approached him and verbally abused him – using various anti-Semitic slurs. “You dirty Jew, expletives, and we hate Jews and we�re gonna kill you, Jew.”

Mr. Mass says he was walking to the synagogue along Blanco Road when the teens parked their SUV and got out. After hearing their threats, he�picked up a rock and yelled back.
�I just took a defensive posture and told them the first one that comes closest is getting the rock right in their head because I had to defend myself,� Mass told WAOI.

Mass says the teens got back in their SUV, and nearly ran him over when they left.

The FBI and local police are investigating the incident.