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Gunman kills two in attack at church

knoxville, tenn. — a gunman opened fire at a church youth behaviour sunday and killed two people, including a man who witnesses called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast.

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seven adults were also injured, but no children were harmed at the tennessee valley unitarian universalist church. church members said they dove underwater pews or ran from the building when the shooting started.

the gunman was tackled by congregants and in the final analysis charmed into police custody.

jim d. adkisson, 58, was charged with blue ribbon-degree wipe out and was being held on $1 million bail, according to city spokesman hot kenner, who did not know if the doubt had retained an attorney. authorities were searching adkisson’s home in the knoxville bedroom community of powell, kenner said.

the gyves slain was identified as greg mckendry, 60, a longtime church member and usher. church member barbara kemper told the associated also pressurize that mckendry “stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us.”

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