Posted on 03/08/2009 1:30:43 PM PDT by StarCMC
A shooting during a morning church service outside St. Louis has left at least one person dead -- the church's pastor -- and several others wounded, officials said.
The Rev. Fred Winters was at the pulpit at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. at 8:15 a.m. local time when a man "walked down the aisle of the church," approached the pulpit and shot Winters in the chest with a .45 caliber handgun, said Trooper Ralph Timmins of the Illinois State Police, which is handling the investigation.
The gun jammed, and the shooter then injured himself with a knife and subsequently was restrained by parishioners, Timmins said in a "preliminary release" left on his office voicemail recording. Approximately 150 people were in the church at the time.
Two parishioners who "tackled" the shooter received "non-life-threatening" injuries from the knife, Timmins said.
Winters was "pronounced [dead] at the hospital for a single gunshot wound to the chest," Timmins said.
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No its not a pro life issue. The doc didn’t do them.He was a GP. No surgery.
The story is largely buried though now.No entertainment value.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/06/arkansas.doctor.explosion/
bump for later
bump for later
Good question.
Thus far no description of the perp. . . none that I came across yet. . .
Definitely not a hate crime. /s
Somebody out there knows who this was and why.
It must either be infidelity or not politically correct to say why.
...maybe???...
It's on the east side -- but not in East St. Louis. More towards Collinsville if you know the area.
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