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To help out local congregations, Trusty’s company has begun offering free active shooter training to places of worship. ... “A House of Worship is supposed to be a safe place,” Reed said.
From 2000 until 2019, there were 15 active-shooter events at houses of worship. (FBI data does not identify which religious group was targeted.) (FBI data does not identify which religious group ...
A few minutes after 11:00 a.m., Kelley arrived in a white SUV [4] at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. [5] Around 11:20 a.m., Kelley stepped out of the SUV, wearing black tactical gear, a ballistic vest, and a black face-mask featuring a white skull, [6] and wielding a Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic rifle.
No one should be in fear in a house of worship. Antisemitism isn't just wrong - it's evil." [38] On May 2, 2019, during his remarks in the White House Rose Garden on the National Day of Prayer, President Trump invited Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein and the two men who had chased the shooter out of the synagogue to address the gathering. [39]
In a survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors, conducted in 2019 by the Southern Baptist Convention’s research division, 62 percent said they had developed plans for responding to an active shooter.
Terry Michael Ratzmann (April 29, 1960 – March 12, 2005) [1] was an American mass murderer who killed seven members of a Living Church of God (LCG) church congregation at a Sheraton Hotel in 2005 in a religious hate crime [2], in Brookfield, Wisconsin, before committing suicide.
The weekend shooting at Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston is not the first time gunfire has caused panic and tragedy at a Texas house of worship. It also underscored the ease of bringing weapons ...
Apart from the shooter, all of the dead were members of the Sikh faith. The incident drew responses from President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Dignitaries attended candlelight vigils in countries such as the U.S., Canada, and India. [3] [7] [8] First Lady Michelle Obama visited the temple on August 23, 2012. [9]