• Albama Church Shooting Leaves One Dead and Two Injured; Suspect Arrested

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    Albama Church Shooting Leaves One Dead and Two Injured; Suspect Arrested

    She went on to claim that the church was receiving messages of support from all over the world, including the United States. "Everyone should be out there," says the author. "Pray, reflect, meditate, and send love to this group," she recommended, "because we will need everything."

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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Digital Desk: One person
    was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at a church in a suburb of
    one of Alabama's main towns on Thursday evening, authorities said, adding that
    a suspect had been apprehended.



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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">At a press conference,
    Police Capt. Shane Ware stated the incident happened at Saint Stephen's
    Episcopal Church in the Vestavia Hills neighbourhood of Birmingham. At 6:22
    p.m., dispatchers received a call reporting an active shooter, he said, and
    police hurried to the church.



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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">According to him, one
    person was killed and two others were injured in the shooting and were taken to
    the hospital right away. Ware confirmed that a suspect has been apprehended,
    but he refused to name the individual or the victims, or to describe how the
    incident happened.

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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">"We are unaware
    of new threat to the Vestavia Hills community or the neighbouring
    areas," Ware told reporters.



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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Officials from the FBI,
    US Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives, as
    well as other local police and fire departments, were dispatched to the area.
    Investigators remained at the church complex well past midnight, with yellow
    police tape encircling it and emergency vehicles with flashing lights blocking
    the entrance.



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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The Rev. Kelley Hudlow,
    an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Alabama, told WBRC that the shooting
    shook both the church and the community.



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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">"It's
    incredible." "Saint Stephen's is a community established on love,
    prayers, and grace, and they are going to come together," she said in a live
    interview with the station. "People are coming together from all walks of
    life to pray for healing."

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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">She went on to claim
    that the church was receiving messages of support from all over the world,
    including the United States. "Everyone should be out there," says the
    author. "Pray, reflect, meditate, and send love to this group," she
    recommended, "because we will need everything."



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    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">It was the most recent
    in a succession of violent shootings that has shaken the country. Following
    recent horrific mass shootings from Buffalo, New York, to Uvalde, Texas,
    thousands of people marched around the United States and at the National Mall
    in Washington, DC on Saturday to relaunch a drive for gun control measures.
    Survivors of mass shootings and other forms of gun violence have also lobbied
    lawmakers and testified on Capitol Hill this month.
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