Posted on 09/24/2017 12:27:53 PM PDT by marktwain
Authorities said one woman was killed and seven others were wounded after a 26-year-old African-American man wearing a ski mask opened fire at a Tennessee church Sunday.
The gunman, who officials said shot himself and was taken to a hospital, opened fire in Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, southeast of Nashville, just after 11 a.m. and fired “multiple rounds,” police said in a news conference. The Nashville Fire Department called the incident “a mass casualty situation.”
A church usher confronted the gunman at one point and was pistol-whipped, causing "significant injury around his head." He told police he then went to his own car, grabbed a pistol and headed back into the church. The gunman then shot himself.
The gunman was taken to the hospital and is under police surveillance. He is expected to survive.
A woman who was fatally shot had just left church and was walking to her car when she was shot, police said.
The gunman then entered the rear of the church and shot six people – three women and three men – who were rushed to the hospital, police said.
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The lack of details about the shooting and the shooter is a yet another example of why the media has abandoned journalism for political correctness.
Huge that Fox News is identifying the shooter's race. I assumed it was a black guy because the other articles didn't automatically describe him as a white male, but rather as a "shooter with mental problems." And the situation didn't seem as bad from the description.
The fact he went in with a ski-mask suggests it wasn't a PTSD or mental breakdown of any kind.
Now here is where everyone needs to pay attention.
I guaran-darn-tee you that there will be no mention of what the gunman said while shooting. It will be captured in police interviews but not released.
You know why...
No, it’s not a duplicate.
If he was AntiFa or BLM it’s time to shut them down .
The shooter was a coward and tried to shoot himself. He is also a loser because he failed to kill himself. Somebody should have helped him before the cops got there.
Now the people have to pay for the bastard. Hear that cops? You are so handy to kill dogs and innocents why don’t you take care of this criminal and justifiably earn your pay and fat pensions?
Is it a church with a mostly black congregation, mixed or white?
He may be a jilted lover since he was suicidal, or a schizophrenic. I’d think a true ideological terrorist would keep shooting even if confronted by an usher with a gun.
Thankfully the usher had one, but a shame he didn’t have it in the building.
Maybe he was after her to begin with... failed love interest?
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