Texas church shooting
Air Force ordered to pay more than $230M in church shooting
By Terry Wallace — February 8, 2022
(AP) — A federal judge had ruled in July that the Air Force was '60% liable' for the 2017 massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, because it failed to submit the killer's assault conviction during his time in the Air Force to a national database.
Texas church grieves, prays, sings after deadly shooting
By Bobby Ross Jr. — December 31, 2019
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (RNS) — 'There is evil in this world, and evil took two of my dear friends yesterday,' minister Britt Farmer told congregants Monday. 'Not a bullet from a gun — evil. Not ideology — evil.'
Firearms instructor took out gunman at Texas church service
By Jake Bleiberg — December 30, 2019
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said authorities 'can't prevent mental illness from occurring, and we can't prevent every crazy person from pulling a gun. But we can be prepared like this church was.'
2 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at church near Fort Worth, Texas
By Associated Press — December 29, 2019
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) — Congregants shot and killed a man who opened fire in a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, killing the attacker, police said. A person shot by the suspect also died and a second parishioner has life-threatening injuries following the attack at the West Freeway Church of Christ, White Settlement […]
2 arrested after claiming Texas church shooting was fiction
By Associated Press — March 6, 2018
(AP) — Pastor Frank Pomeroy, whose 14-year-old daughter died in the Nov. 5 shooting, says they claimed his daughter never existed and demanded to see her birth certificate.
Allowing guns in church flies in the face of tradition and Scripture
By Tom Verde — December 19, 2017
(RNS) — Pistol-packing parishioners may seem like a way to guard against the church shootings that have become so commonplace recently. But there is a long history in Christianity of opposing such strategies.
Texas law requires unborn child of shooting victim be counted
By Kimberly Winston — November 7, 2017
(RNS) — More than three dozen states have similar laws, most of which stem from the 2002 murder of a California woman.
Mass shooting at Texas church prompts strong words from religious leaders
By Adelle M. Banks — November 6, 2017
(RNS) — As the nation reels from another mass shooting, religious leaders were quick to react to the latest tragedy.
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