Posted on 07/27/2008 2:04:12 PM PDT by LuxMaker
One adult was killed and eight others wounded -- six of them seriously -- when a man opened fire during a children's play Sunday morning at a Unitarian church in Knoxville, Tennessee, police and church members said.
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Be interested on your reaction to post 20....
Is “something” telling you anything else, now?
He’s been identified. Jim D. Adkisson, 58, of Powell.
As well, a second victim has just died.
My brother (sadly a Unitarian) goes to the church...he thought it was because they recently proclaimed they were gay-friendly. (I think that’s probably projection over how self-important they are.) We’ll see.
It’s a little surprising to find that a Unitarian Universalist church had anything strong enough to say that would offend anyone.
He’s been identified - a white guy from Powell, name Jim D. Adkisson, 58 years old.
News Sentinel and WBIR have rolling updates running on the stories here:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/27/church-shooting-leaves-several-injured/
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=61322&catid=2
I heard about this a few hours after it happened. We’re in Oak Ridge.
Is that the one on Kingston Pike? If so, I went there as a kid.
That’s scary..
A big church in Knoxville was burnt down a few years ago by white supremists...
How could anyone do such a thing?
Yes - this happened at the church on Kingston Pike, just west of UT.
A small one was burned in Oak Ridge on December 31, 2004. That was my church.
I’m sorry that happened...
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