church shooting

Churches are taking another look at their church security plans after a weekend when 10 died in a shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store and another the next day at a California church.

More details have begun to emerge regarding the tragic murder-suicide that took place at The Church in Sacramento located in California on Monday evening.

Jose De Jesus Montoya Villa, wanted for shooting and killing a woman in a suburban Denver church and wounding two other churchgoers last week, has died after he was shot by police officers investigating other crimes.

Kaillyn Harris is in police custody after turning herself in for a shooting that resulted in the death of Prichard, Alabama pastor’s wife Grace Carter on December 28. 

Grace Carter was killed by a stray bullet during a Tuesday night Bible study at Everlasting Life Holiness Church in Prichard, Alabama. Carter’s homicide is the third in Prichard since Christmas. 

A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the conviction and death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof for the slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did.

Attorneys for the Dylann Roof who was sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.

Pieter Van der Westhuizen, brother of the late South African rugby legend Joost Van der Westhuizen, and a former police officer, moved quickly when three armed robbers entered a church in Pretoria, South Africa.