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12:40 pm
May 24, 2008
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Jack Justice
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If you know of aa incident that is not listed below please add it so we can keep track of it in our database.
The ones listed below are shootings but I would also like to start a list of assaults and other incidents.
With the exception of the recent shooting in Colorado, where a female church security member stopped the killer, none of the shooters stopped their carnage until they ran out of ammunition, gave up or killed themselves.
Known church shootings.
Richmond, CA 3/08 ——-1 Dead ——-3 Wounded
Maryland 3/08 ——-3 Wounded
Bucks County, PA 1/08 ——-1 Dead
Newton County, MO 7/08 3 Dead 4 wounded
Colorado 12/07 ——-4 Dead ——-3 Wounded
Seattle Washington, 7/06 ——-1 Dead ——-5 Wounded
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 5/06 ——-5 Dead
Detroit, MI 2/06 ——-3 Dead ——-1 Wounded
Brookfield, WI 2/05 ——-7 Dead
Sash, TX 8/05 ——-4 Dead
Fort Pierce, Fla. 2/04 ——-1 Dead
Rochester Hills, MI 3/03 ——-1 Dead ——-10 Wounded
Atlanta, GA ——-3 Dead
NYC,NY 3/02 ——-2 Dead
Long Island, NY ——-1 Dead
Columbia, TN 12/99 ——-1 Dead ——-1 Wounded
Wedgewood, TX 9/99 ——-8 Dead ——-7 Wounded
Gonzales, LO 3/99 ——-4 Dead
Trotwood, OH 9/98 ——-1 Dead
Salmon, Idaho 9/97 ——-1 Dead
Germantown, MI ——-1 Dead
NYC,NY 10/88 ——-1 Dead
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10:04 am
May 26, 2008
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Captain38
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Here are some additional church shootings plus some details about some of the shootings already listed in the original posting:
April 15, 1999 – Salt Lake City, Utah – LDS Church Family History Library – 2 killed + shooter – Sergei Babarin, 70, with a history of mental illness, entered the library, killed two people and wounded four others before he was gunned down by police.
Sept. 15, 1999 – Fort Worth, Texas – Wedgewood Baptist Church – 7 killed + shooter – Larry Gene Ashbrook shot dead seven people and injured a further seven at a concert by Christian rock group Forty Days in Fort Worth, Texas before killing himself.
May 18, 2001 – Hopkinsville, Kentucky – Greater Oak Missionary Baptist Church – 2 killed – Frederick Radford stood up in the middle of a revival service and began shooting at his estranged wife, Nicole Radford, killing her and a woman trying to help her.
March 12, 2002 – Lynbrook, New York – Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church – 2 killed – Peter Troy, a former mental patient, opens fire during Mass, killing the priest and a parishioner. He later receives a life sentence. (Listed above as NYC, NY 3/02 – 2 dead)
June 10, 2002 – Conception, Missouri – Benedictine monastery – 2 killed + shooter – Lloyd Robert Jeffress shot four monks in the monastery killing two and wounding two, before killing himself.
Oct. 5, 2003 – Kirkwood, Georgia, east of Atlanta, Turner Monumental AME Church – 2 killed + shooter – Shelia Wilson walked into the church while preparations are being made for service and shot the pastor, her mother and then herself.
March 12, 2005 – Brookfield, Wisconsin – Living Church of God – 7 killed + shooter – Terry Ratzmann opened fire on the congregation, killing seven and wounding four before taking his own life. (Listed above as Brookfield, WI 2/05 – 7 dead)
April 9, 2005 – A 27-year-old airman died after being shot at a church in College Park, Ga., where he had once worked as a security guard.
July 30, 2005 – College Park, Georgia – World Changers Church International – shooter killed – Air Force Staff Sgt. John Givens was shot five times by a police officer after charging the officer, following violent behavior.
Feb. 26, 2006 – Detroit, Michigan – Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church – 2 killed + shooter – Kevin L. Collins, who reportedly went to the church looking for his girlfriend, later killed himself. (Listed above as Detroit, MI 2/06 – 3 dead – 1 wounded)
May 21, 2006 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana – The Ministry of Jesus Christ Church – 4 killed – The four at the church who were shot were members of Erica Bell's family; she was abducted and murdered elsewhere; Bell's mother, church pastor Claudia Brown, was seriously wounded – Anthony Bell, 25, was the shooter. (Listed above as Baton Rouge, Louisiana 5/06 – 5 dead)
Oct. 2, 2006 – Although not at a church building, the , attack in Lancaster County, Pa., by a gunman who killed five girls and then himself at an Amish school targeted a religious site.
May 20, 2007- A standoff between police and a suspect in the shootings of three people in a Moscow, Idaho, Presbyterian Church ended with three dead, including one police officer.
August 12, 2007 – A lone gunman, Eiken Elam Saimon, opened fire in the First Congregational Church, Neosho, Missouri, a Micronesian church, killing a pastor and two deacons and wounding five other churchgoers.
December 9, 2007 – New Life Church, Colorado Springs, CO. Young gunman arrives with a military style rifle and two handguns and over a thousand rounds of ammunition. He places a smoke bomb at the rear of the building and then drives around to the front where he kills two young sisters on the parking lot as the family is leaving morning services. He then shoots multiple rounds into the front windows and doors of the building and storms inside the church apparently looking for more victims. He is confronted and shot by an armed female security team member. He took his own life after being wounded and down. (Listed above as Colorado 12/07 – 4 dead 3 wounded)
May 17, 2008 – Los Angeles- A man with a .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle opened fire at St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic parish church festival wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before two off duty officers grabbed him and held him for other police. Fernando Diaz Jr., 33, wounded his 29-year-old wife in the arm and a 45-year-old man was wounded in the leg. Both were hospitalized in stable condition. A 43-year-old man was hit in the chest and was hospitalized in critical condition. (Believed the same as listed above as Richmond, CA – 1 dead – 3 wounded)
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10:07 am
May 26, 2008
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Captain38
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I apologize for the irregular spacing in my previous post. I still can't explain why it turned out that way!
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9:19 pm
November 17, 2008
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spence
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I’ve given my security presentation at churches several times. Part of the presentation is the study of selected church shooters and their though processes. Of course this is a tragic topic and not one that most churchgoers want to think about. Trying to break the morbidity, I ask a trivia question about who Martin Luther King’s mother was and what happened to her. Not one person has gotten it right yet.
Her name was Alberta Christine Williams King and she was killed by a gunman on 6/30/74 as she played the organ at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The gunman, whose name was Marcus Wayne Chenault, killed her because he thought, "all Christians are my enemies."
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5:24 pm
November 19, 2008
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SMince2
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We recently upgraded our security system at church. The company spokesman showed all the key holders how to arm/disarm the system, and where the different panic buttons were and how to operate them.
When he was explaining the one that summons Law Enforcement, he mentioned the recent Knoxville church shooting and a few other incidents I've been trying to press to our people. Having an 'outsider' talk about the same incidents seemed to open some eyes as I surveyed the looks on peoples' faces.
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9:41 pm
November 20, 2008
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Jack Justice
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Scot
It is interesting how an "outside expert" seems to carry more weight. Glad to hear that you were able to add the system
J
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7:41 pm
November 23, 2008
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spence
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11/23/08 Clifton NJ
One dead, two injured in church shooting.
It appears to have been related to domestic violence.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/BREAKING_Shots_reported_at_Clifton_church_.html
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7:48 pm
November 23, 2008
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spence
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Not sure if this qualifies, but it involved church members at an official church function, although not in a church building.
5/27/08 New Castle DE
Church leader killed by church member upset regarding church policy and the construction of a new building. The attack was stopped by others in attendance.
Note that the offender had two semi autos and 150 rounds of ammo. What do you think his intentions were?
http://cbs3.com/local/monir.george.malak.2.732742.html
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3:10 pm
November 26, 2008
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November 23, 2008 – A man accused of driving across the country to fatally shoot his estranged wife and another man inside a New Jersey church confessed to the shooting rampage, a Georgia prosecutor told the Associated Press.
Walton County Assistant District Attorney Eric Crawford said Joseph Pallipurath, 27, gave a videotaped confession on Tuesday, hours after he was arrested at a motel 40 miles east of Atlanta. Crawford says Pallipurath told investigators he would have killed everyone in the church if he'd had a machine gun.
Pallipurath told authorities he was unhappy that church members were blocking his attempts to contact his wife, who had left him three months ago, the Associated Press reported.
Pallipurath is suspected of shooting and killing his wife, 24-year-old Reshma James, inside the St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church in Clifton, a suburb about 15 miles west of Manhattan.
Also killed was Dennis John Mallosseril, who maintained the church's Web site. Witnesses said he had tried to intervene and stop the rampage.
A third person, James' 47-year-old cousin Silvy Perincheril, was shot in the head and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,457366,00.html
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5:36 pm
November 26, 2008
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SMince2
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SPENCE:
If you tried to send me a message in my inbox, I could never get it to open.
Scott
Edited: I did finally open it and posted a reply in the proper forum.
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1:24 pm
December 26, 2008
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December 26, 2008
Not a shooting, but this just in…..
Man, 69, Attacked Outside Church (WBAL-TV – updated 26 minutes ago)
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. – Police in Prince George's County are investigating a brutal attack on a senior citizen.
The man was robbed and beaten outside a church just before midnight mass on Christmas Eve, according to police.
Authorities said the 69-year-old had just dropped his wife off at the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church and was preparing to park when a person beat him with a baseball bat.
The victim was hospitalized in critical condition.
There is no word whether police have found any suspects or motives in the attack.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28392067
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