Posted on 07/29/2008 7:09:08 PM PDT by RDTF
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- The suspect in a fatal shooting at a Knoxville church Sunday was motivated by frustration over being unable to obtain a job and hatred for the liberal movement, police said Monday.
Authorities recovered a four-page letter in which the suspect, Jim Adkisson, described his feelings and motives, police said.
Adkisson, 58, of Powell, Tennessee, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder in the shootings at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
The gunman killed two adults and wounded seven others before being overpowered by congregants, authorities said.
The case is being investigated as a hate crime, police said.
Sterling Owen IV told reporters on Monday.
Authorities also discovered a letter from the state government telling Adkisson he was having his food stamps reduced or eliminated, police said.
"He did express that frustration, that the liberal movement was getting more jobs," Owen said. "And he felt like he was being kept out of the loop because of his age."
Adkisson's resume indicates he had worked in mechanical engineering, police said.
Owen said Adkisson apparently acted alone and chose the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because of recent publicity about activities there that Adkisson considered liberal.
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Be careful. Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, was a Unitarian (and an agnostic).
Very good point. The media picks and chooses.
Blood of Tyrants pointed out the above. I didn't know that part of the story. I don't know if the rest of you knew about it, but here's an article talking more about the ex-wife belonging to that church:
SNIP: Adkisson's ex-wife once belonged to the church but hadn't attended in years, said Ted Jones, the congregation's president. Police spokesman Darrell DeBusk declined to comment on whether investigators think the ex-wife's link was a factor in the attack.... court records reviewed by The Associated Press show that his former wife obtained an order of protection in March 2000 while the two were still married and living in the Knoxville suburb of Powell. The couple had been married for nearly 10 years when Liza Alexander wrote in requesting the order that Adkisson threatened "to blow my brains out and then blow his own brains out." She told a judge she feared for her life.
So, this guy has been having problems for a long time. Btw, notice how the article mentions at the end that he was in the army for a few years back in the '70's. Now how is that relevant to the story?
You are supposed to bring your own.
The Unitarian Church is sort of like Obama, no morals, no direction, just a lot of feel good fluff
"Countin' flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all
Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kan-Kangaroo
Now don't tell meeee
I've nothin to doooo."
:)
LOL!
You are supposed to bring your own.
Or check yours at the door
LOL!
I wish it was intentional.
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