How can this happen? From the newspaper:
Knoxville police this afternoon charged a 58-year-old Powell man with one court of first-degree murder in this morning's shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
Jim D. Adkisson is being held on a $1 million bond at the Knox County Detention Center.
He is accused of opening fire during a children's play, shooting eight people with a shotgun, killing one, according to Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV.
Seven of the wounded were taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, according to spokeswoman Becky Thompson.
Earlier today, five were listed in critical condition; one was listed as serious. Another was treated and released.
All were adults: four women and three men.
Another victim was trampled and was treated and released at a hospital, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said during a press conference this afternoon.
The irony, in spite of the tragedy of this whole thing, is that the Unitarians are the most accepting, non-violent kind of folks. Unitarians are the ones who believe in freedom of religious expression, the dignity of each human being, and tolerance. Why would anyone want to open fire at this church? Or anywhere for that matter?
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