TN Church Shooter Hoped Attack Would Spur More
An unemployed truck driver seething over liberalism told police he opened fire in a church last year because it harbored gays and multiracial families and he hoped others would follow his example.
Prosecutors opened their case file Thursday on Jim David Adkisson, 58, who pleaded guilty a month ago to killing two people and wounding six others at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville. The file includes interviews with investigators and a suicide note Adkisson left in his car.
Now serving a life sentence, Adkisson told police during an hour-long interrogation three hours after the July 27 shooting that he was unemployed, depressed and ready to take his anger out on what he called “an ultra-liberal” church that “never met a pervert they just didn’t embrace.”
Even though this happened a while back, seeing the newly released video really shows the level of intolerance that is present here in Tennessee. This man was so homophobic and so deluded with extreme conservatism that he would go into a peaceful Universalist Church that welcomes anyone to kill as many people as he can. I only hope the other crazies around here keep it together enough not to try to kill people with different ideas and opinions.
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