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  • Lakewood Church Shooter in Hijab Praised Hamas and Osama bin Laden

    02/16/2024 6:32:06 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 15 Feb, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    "Don't worry my MUSLIMS brothers I am pass the threat phase. I'm in planning mode." A mentally unstable leftist shot 3 Muslims in Burlington, VT and every political figure, including Biden and Kamala, and the entire media falsely claimed it was “Islamophobia” and “anti-Palestinianism” until it turned out that the shooter supported Hamas. A mentally unstable woman walks into a pro-Israel church with a rifle that says “Palestine” on it after appearing in a hijab and there’s uncomfortable fidgeting. The police claimed that she had “antisemitic writings”, they neglected to mention the overt support for Islamic terrorism. Moreno’s Telegram posts...
  • Transgender woman who opened fire in church had ‘Free Palestine’ written on rifle

    02/13/2024 6:36:08 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 21 replies
    World Israel News ^ | 2/12/24 | Staff
    A transgender woman armed with an AR-15 rifle opened fire inside a Texas megachurch on Sunday afternoon, bearing the words ‘Free Palestine’ on her weapon, as reported by various media outlets. Accompanied by a young child, whose relationship to the shooter remains unclear, the woman made a false claim of possessing a bomb, later refuted by Houston police who found no explosives in her backpack or car during a thorough search. Prior to being subdued by law enforcement, the woman allegedly sprayed an unidentified substance on the ground, as per CNN reports. Authorities have emphasized a meticulous investigation to ensure...
  • BREAKING: Joel Osteen church shooter identified as Genesse Moreno, also went by Jeffrey: local media

    02/12/2024 8:21:12 AM PST · by conservative98 · 87 replies
    PM ^ | 2.12.24 | Libby Emmons
    The individual who walked into Joel Osteen's Lakewood, Texas church on Sunday and pulled out a gun was identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36. Moreno had a 4 or 5-year-old child when entering the church wearing a trenchcoat. Local news reports that multiple sources have said that Genesse Ivonne Moreno is suspected of being the "armed woman" who was killed at the church Sunday. Reports indicated that the shooter was female, but it has since been revealed that Moreno was male. Moreno was shot and killed by off duty officers, and the weapon was emblazoned with the slogan "Free Palestine."...
  • Lakewood Church Shooter Stopped by Good Guy with Gun

    02/11/2024 2:06:18 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 62 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/11/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    A shooter at Houston’s Lakewood Church was reportedly stopped by a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy working security at the church Sunday morning. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez responded to news of the shooting with an X post saying, “It is believed that a possible shooter is down, shot by one of our deputy’s on-scene. I’m enroute to the scene.” Click2Houston reported the shooter allegedly opened fire in the church lobby. The outlet noted that witnesses indicated “the shooter was possibly a female.”
  • Russia: ‘Allahu Akbar’ Gunman Kills Churchgoers at Folk Festival in Muslim-majority Dagestan

    02/18/2018 8:17:23 PM PST · by Lera · 12 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2/18/18 | Jack Montgomery
    A gunman has killed four women and injured three others, including police officers, at a folk festival in the Russian republic of Dagestan, according to local sources. A man armed with a hunting rifle gunned down churchgoers in the city of Kizlyar, according to the Associated Press, and reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as he opened fire. Kizlyar’s mayor Alexander Shuvalov told Russian media the gunman opened fire as people were leaving a Sunday evening service at a local Orthodox church. “Four people were killed. The shooter was shot dead. Two police officers and a woman were wounded,” he said.
  • Transgender Suspect With Communist Manifesto Arrested For Planning Shootings At Schools, Churches: Police

    04/07/2023 2:11:16 PM PDT · by spirited irish · 16 replies
    PatriotandLiberty Blog ^ | 4/6/23 | Ryan Saavedra
    Law enforcement officials in Colorado have arrested a transgenderindividual with a communist manifesto for allegedly planning mass shootings at schools and churches in the area.News of the arrest was made public on Thursday afternoon, but the arrest happened on March 31, just a few days after a transgender terrorist massacred six people, including three children, at a private Christian school in Nashville.
  • Transgender Colorado woman, 19, is arrested over plot to shoot up THREE schools and churches by cops who found detailed plans and communist manifesto four days after Nashville massacre

    04/06/2023 8:07:51 PM PDT · by Morgana · 74 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | April 6, 2023 | Paul Farrell
    A transgender teen is in custody after authorities say they recovered a manifesto detailing her plan to attack three schools and churches in Colorado just four days after Audrey Hale murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville. William Whitworth, 19, who goes by the name Lilly and is referred to with female pronouns in arrest documents, was arrested on March 31. She was a student in the school district that she planned to attack between 2014 and 2016, authorities say. In a manifesto that was recovered in her home, Whitworth called Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold...
  • Mother of Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale shared several gun control posts on social media

    03/27/2023 10:08:28 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | David Propper
    The mother of the Nashville school shooter who killed six people – including three 9-year-olds – appeared to be a gun control activist who once urged friends on Facebook to sign a petition calling to keep firearms out of schools. “So important!” Norma Hale wrote in a March 8, 2018 Facebook post as she shared the petition that stated “Keep Guns Out of School” that appeared to be from the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.
  • Trans female former student, 28, armed with two assault rifles and a handgun, kills three nine-year-old kids and three staff members at Nashville private Christian school after writing manifesto and drawing maps of church campus

    03/27/2023 3:42:02 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 135 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/27/2023 | Jen Smith
    Six people - including three children - are dead after a transgender female shooter opened fire at a private school in Nashville, killing three nine-year-old children and three staff members. The shooter was 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who at one time attended the school. Police said she identified as transgender, and online profiles show Audrey used 'he/him' pronouns.
  • Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale identified as transgender and had detailed manifesto to attack Christian academy

    03/27/2023 3:29:50 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 64 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/27/2023
    Nashville police revealed that the 28-year-old who shot and killed six people at the Covenant School, including three children, identified as transgender and had a detailed manifesto to attack the Christian academy. Officials said Audrey Hale, a former student, entered the school Monday morning by shooting through a door on the side of the building... Police said Hale was equipped with at least two assault rifles and a handgun, and in searching her family home in Nashville, officers found detailed maps and a manifesto of the attack. “We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that...
  • California church shooting victim hailed a hero: 'He sacrificed himself so others could live'

    05/16/2022 12:59:24 PM PDT · by chrisinoc · 13 replies
    Fox 11 Los Angeles ^ | May 16, 2022 | Alexa Mae Asperin
    LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. - The heroic actions of a Laguna Niguel doctor who died while trying to save fellow parishioners during Sunday's shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church are being described by authorities as "literally the meeting of good versus evil." He has been identified as Dr. John Cheng, 52, according to Orange County officials. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Cheng "took heroic actions that day," officials said. According to witnesses, Cheng charged the suspect, 68-year-old David Chou of Las Vegas in an attempt to disarm him, which allowed other parishioners to intervene. A pastor threw a chair...
  • Multiple People Hit in Shooting at Laguna Woods Church; Suspected Shooter in Custody (California)

    05/15/2022 2:31:25 PM PDT · by Drew68 · 172 replies
    NBC Los Angeles ^ | 05/15/2022
    Multiple people have been hit during a shooting at a church in the Laguna Woods area of Orange County, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. The suspected shooter at the church, in the 24000 block of El Toro Road, is in police custody, the OCSD said. The gun used in the shooting has been recovered, the OCSD said. Deputies are still at the scene. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
  • Holcombe v. USA $230 Million Award from Air Force for Church Shooting

    02/18/2022 4:25:44 AM PST · by marktwain · 9 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | February 16, 2022 | Dean Weingarten
    On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelly shot and killed 26 churchgoers and wounded 20 more in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Kelly was stopped by Stephen Willeford, who disrupted the shooting and wounded Kelly. Kelly purchased the firearms he used through federally licensed dealers. The National Instant Background System (NICS) approved of the sales, even though Kelly was a prohibited possessor. The Air Force had failed to enter the criminal data about Kelly into the NICS system.Survivors of the shooting sued the federal government for negligence, using, in part, the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).In general, the Federal Government is immune...
  • Judge orders Air Force to pay $230M in Texas church shooting

    02/08/2022 10:13:30 AM PST · by aimhigh · 63 replies
    Axios ^ | 02/08/2022 | Erin Doherty
    A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Air Force must pay more than $230 million to survivors and victims' families of the 2017 shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez in July ruled that the Air Force holds 60% of the responsibility for the shooting in the Texas church because it failed to enter the shooter's criminal history into a federal background check database used for gun purchases. More than 25 people were killed in the shooting.Rodriguez on Monday ordered the Air Force to pay millions, which will compensate more than 80 family...
  • One Dead, Two Wounded in Aurora, Colorado, Church Shooting

    02/05/2022 3:43:54 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/05/2022 | Awr Hawkins
    One person was killed and two others were wounded in an Aurora, Colorado, church shooting Friday night just after 8 p.m. The Denver Post reported that the incident occurred at the Iglesia Faro De Luz Church in Aurora, located at 538 N. Olathe Street.
  • Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Gives Jack Wilson a Medal for Heroically Stopping Church Shooting

    01/13/2020 2:11:29 PM PST · by jazusamo · 24 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 13, 2020 | Julio Rosas
    Video of ceremony in article at link. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) presented Jack Wilson , the volunteer security guard who stopped a shooting at a church in December, with the Governor's Medal of Courage to honor his heroic actions on that tragic Sunday. Wilson used his SIG P229, that was chambered in .357 SIG, to take down a shooter who used a shotgun to kill two church members in the attack at West Freeway Church of Christ. Wilson only used one round to kill the gunman. The incident was caught on the church's livestream and showed the attack was...
  • Bloomberg On Hero Stopping Church Shooting: ‘Can’t Let The Average American Have Guns’ In Church

    01/06/2020 2:26:00 PM PST · by SkyPilot · 76 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | 6 Jan 20 | Josh Hammer
    Top-tier 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has long been an adamant foe of Second Amendment rights, has now come out with his latest anti-gun doozy. In the aftermath of the recent church shooting outside Fort Worth, Texas, which saw an armed churchgoer hero take down the culprit a mere six seconds after he initially opened fire, Bloomberg has seen fit to opine that we as a society “can’t let the average American have guns” in a “crowded place” such as a house of worship. “It may be true — I wasn’t...
  • Slow-Mo Breakdown Shows 7 Churchgoers Pulled Guns To Stop Bad Guy in Texas Church Shooting

    12/31/2019 9:04:44 AM PST · by rktman · 83 replies
    westernjournal.com ^ | 12/30/2019 | Lori Flaherty
    In a stunning real-life example of why it is important that Americans retain their Second Amendment right to bear arms, a shooter at a Texas church on Sunday was fatally shot within seconds after he pulled a gun and shot two congregants during a service. The gunman — identified Monday as 43-year-old Keith Thomas Kinnunen, according to KXAS-TV — entered the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, near Forth Worth, and opened fire. Fortunately, he was quickly stopped by armed security, preventing any further deaths or injuries. Several other churchgoers also drew their weapons — a fact...
  • Texas Church Shooter Stopped by Armed Church Heroes

    12/31/2019 6:49:27 AM PST · by marktwain · 34 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 30 December, 2019 | Dean Weingarten
    Screenshot from live feed from West Freeway Church of Christ, text and arrows by Dean Weingarten On 29 December, at about 10:50 a.m. a masked attacker, who had sat in the service at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, close to Fort Worth Texas, opened fire, first on an armed church member, then on an unarmed congregant. The attacker is shot by another armed congregant. The action was over in six seconds. By the 35 second mark, there were six to seven armed congregants at the scene. There was no crossfire. There was no mistaken identity shooting....
  • ‘Make sure your vote is on target’: Man who stopped Texas church shooter is running for office

    12/30/2019 8:54:24 AM PST · by springwater13 · 31 replies
    The man who fired back and saved the lives of his fellow churchgoers in Texas is running for office with the campaign slogan: “Make sure your vote is on target.” Jack Wilson, 71, shot and killed a gunman who opened fire in West Freeway Church of Christ in Tarrant County, near Fort Worth, Texas. Wilson was on duty as the volunteer security officer at the time of the shooting. He drew his weapon and killed the assailant within seconds. Wilson’s aim wasn’t surprising, given his background. He was president of On Target Firearms Training Academy until 2016, worked as a...