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From local news reports:
Multiple people have suffered gunshot wounds in what
witnesses describe as a mass shooting inside a church in
West Knoxville Sunday morning [July 27 2008].
The shootings happened at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian
Universalist Church on Kingston Pike.
A children's production of "Annie" was taking place as part
of the normal Sunday service at the time of the shooting,
the witness, who is a member of the church, said. The gunman
walked into a packed sanctuary and opened fire.
Two people were killed and seven more wounded. The shooter
was subdued by church members. He was apparently a fierce
"old south" partisan who "hated liberals".
This exploration was undertaken because of my feelings of personal
connections. One of the critically wounded is a close friend
of fellow SSE member Schera Chadwick. And my son, who is the
software architect for the GCP has a connection to the
Unitarian Church in Knoxville. It was his congregation when he lived there.
The shooting was sometime between 10 and 11 local time,
which is 14:00 - 15:00 GMT. The result is a striking graph
showing a strong upward trend until about 2 hours before the
shooting, then a matching downward trend for the rest of the
day.
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