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Yet another church shooting leaves one dead, two injured PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jeff Garvas   
Monday, 27 February 2006

USA Today has an Associated Press story about a shooting that took place in a Detroit Church Sunday morning. The story unfolds like a script on how to shoot up a church. Someone barges into the church, opens fire, people scream, and the shooter flees -- sometimes car-jacking someone to get away. The script played out again in Detroit, killing a woman, and injuring both a young boy and a man trying to protect his wife.

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From the AP Story:
DETROIT (AP) — A suspected gunman who opened fire with a shotgun during a church service Sunday morning killed a woman and wounded two people before he shot himself a mile away, police said. Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church parishioners and their families console each other Sunday after the shooting. Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church parishioners and their families console each other Sunday after the shooting. By David Guralnick, The Detroit News

Investigators believe a domestic dispute led to the shooting at Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church about 11 a.m., said Second Deputy Police Chief James Tate.

A 9-year-old child, sitting near the unidentified woman who died, was hit in the hand by a buckshot pellet, Tate said. Police didn't know the relationship of the pair.

As the gunman fled the church, he critically shot a man trying to protect his wife from a carjacking attempt, officials said.
Many hours after the shooting law enforcement spotted the shooting less than a mile from the scene:
More than five hours after the shooting spree, Tate said officers spotted the suspect, who was identified as 24-year-old Kevin Lorenzo Collins, walking about a mile south of the church.

Collins shot himself to death before police captured him, Tate said.
Sadly, church shootings are becoming the new norm in unexplainable public shooting rampages.

In the past we covered the epidemic of places of workship becoming criminal protection zones. In Ohio, our concealed carry law deems every place of worship a "no guns" environment unless local leadership says otherwise. Such a policy is ripe for a potential violent attack.

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