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Cordon Tape Outside Church Under Attack: 'A Church Built On Love, Prayer And Grace'
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The believers were eating dinner together when the shooter entered the church: in the US southern state of Alabama, a man shot at participants in a church group.
Two of the three people who were shot died and one person was injured and taken to the hospital.
This was announced by a police spokesman on Thursday (local time) in Vestavia Hills, a district of the city of Birmingham.
The shooter was arrested.
There is no danger to the population.
According to initial information, the man appeared alone at the meeting of a small group in the local Episcopal Church in the early evening and opened fire on those present.
The police initially gave no further information about the perpetrator or a possible motive.
According to its website, a "boomers potluck" took place in the church on the evening of the attack, with everyone bringing something to eat.
"There is no program, eat and spend time with the community," said one flyer.
“Things like that should never happen — in any church, store, city, anywhere.”
Governor Kay Ivey
A representative for the state's diocese, Rev. Kelley Hudlow, said the congregation was shocked by the attack.
"It's a church built on love, prayer and grace, and they will come together again," she told a US television network.
State Gov. Kay Ivey wrote in a statement that she was shocked by the incident.
“Things like that should never happen — in any church, store, city, anywhere.”
In the past few weeks, people in the United States have repeatedly been attacked with firearms: Among other things, a white man shot ten black people in front of a supermarket in upstate New York in May, and at the end of May a man attacked an elementary school in Texas and shot 19 children there.
The US Congress is currently discussing tightening the extremely liberal gun laws, among other things to make it a little harder to buy guns.
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