September 24, 2017 Nashville Tennessee Church Mass Shooting by Sudanese immigrant Alleged church Shooter Emanuel Kidega Samson is a Sudanese immigrant who was brought to America when he was only 4-5 years old. Suspect was not recognized in his mask but later was identified as a former member of the church. urviving victims include Minister Joey Spann, who is in critical condition, and his wife, Peggy Spann, 65, who is in stable condition. The other victims are now all in stable condition: Linda Bush, 68; William Jenkins, 83; Marlene Jenkins, 84; Katherine Dickerson, 64; and Robert Engle, 22, the usher who stopped the gunman, police said. Samson Wearing a Ski Mask, Opened Fire as Church Was Letting Out, Police Say. Tennessee church suspect had a note citing retaliation for racist Dylan Roof's Emanuel AME black Church shooting Police were called twice about disputes with his girlfriend who was not at the church, and Samson's father called police after he got a text with suicidal thought. He was armed like a commando with a mask, two semiautomatic pistols which were still loaded, and a tactical vest with extra magazines of ammunition.
He was some sort of black nationalist conspiracy theorist as review of Samson's Facebook page by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found sympathies and interests to black supremacist figures and groups like the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam, as well as an affinity for conspiracy theories.[9] In the days leading up to the shooting, he posted "several cryptic messages" on his Facebook page.[1]
A psychiatrist diagnosed Samson with "schizoaffective disorder bipolar type" and post-traumatic stress disorder after an abusive, violent upbringing. He found Samson heard voices, hallucinated and had intense mood swings, with "delusional beliefs" about predicting the future and controlling people with his mind. He determined Samson's mental disease drove his actions in the Nashville shooting at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ. but did nto know if it met insanity defense. [1]
Alternative theory: Was it clandestine attack by foreign nation state that promotes black nationalism and conspiracy theories and racial division? Was he sent by the same people who sent Dylann Roof who used an e-mail accout and posted his manifesto on a Russian website?
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Man charged with shooting in Tennessee church pleads not guilty ... https://www.reuters.com/.../man-charged-with-shooting-in-tennessee-church-pleads-n... Mar 28, 2018 - Emanuel Kidega Samson, 26, entered the plea in a Davidson County criminal court on the 43-count indictment for the shooting at the Nashville ..
10/22/2017 sun Police: Church shooting suspect noted 'visions,' 'voices' ABC News Police: Church shooting suspect noted 'visions,' 'voices' ... The Sunday shooting rampage killed 38-year-old Melanie L. Crow of Smyrna, Tennessee. told police he heard voices and had visions, including an image of that particular church, a detective testified in court Monday. Nashville Police Detective Steve Jolley said 25-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson wouldn't say much else about his vision of Burnette Chapel Church of Christ, when pressed by police during an interview. "He was just very vague and he didn't really elaborate on anything," Jolley said at a hearing in Davidson County General Sessions Court. a note found in Samson's car made reference to a white supremacist's 2015 massacre at a South Carolina black church, a detail that The Associated Press first reported. The note found on the dashboard read something like, "Dylann Roof was less than nothing," Jolley said.
The 'Alt-Right' May Have Been Right About Tennessee Shooter [anti-white hatee].Newsweek Sep 30, 2017 - they potentially validate—at least in one critical respect—the concerns of some “alt-right” activists who view the case as a “reverse Dylann Roof” ... may have been carried out in retaliation for the deadly attack perpetrated by white supremacist Roof...based upon a note the suspect allegedly left behind in his car. ... Brad Griffin, an alt-right political organizer who is a prominent voice in the white nationalist community, spoke to Newsweek ... he believes the so-called liberal media used the news surrounding Roof’s shooting spree—... whether he feels the media will cover the circumstances around Samson’s alleged shooting in the same way, he demurs. Chuck Johnson, a conservative editor who runs the website Gotnews.com, which is popular in alt-right circles, called the Antioch shooting suspect a “black power radical” in an article he ran on his site, based on screenshots he said he took from the suspect’s Facebook page. He called the alleged shooter’s dislike of whites “obvious.” “I don’t like this racial violence on either side,” Johnson says of parallels he sees between the Antioch and Roof attacks.
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shooter, identified by police as Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene. He was taken into custody and is at the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds, police said. You can read more about Emanuel Samson here.
On September 24, 2017, a gunman opened fire at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee, part of the Greater Nashville Area, killing one person and injuring seven others.
One suspect, identified as 25-year-old native of Sudan, Emanuel Kidega Samson, was arrested after getting into an altercation with a bystander, and charged with first-degree murder. Around one week after the mass shooting, the suspect said that the attack was revenge for the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
Shooting[edit]
The gunman carried two handguns, and after fatally shooting a woman outside, he entered the church from the rear, according to police. He then walked through the church silently, shooting six more people.[1]
At this point, according to police, the gunman was confronted by an usher, 22-year-old Robert Engle, whom he pistol-whipped. During the ensuing struggle, Samson accidentally shot himself in the chest. Engle ran to his car to get his own gun and pointed it at the wounded Samson until police arrived to arrest him. Engle was called a "hero" by police.[2][3]
Around 50 parishioners were in the church at the time of the shooting,[4] which was reported at 11:15 a.m. local time as church services were ending.[3]
Victims[edit]
The deceased woman was identified as 38-year-old Melanie Smith. She was first shot in the face, then suffered additional gunshot wounds to the back when she attempted to flee the gunman. Six other people aged between 60 and 83 were injured by gunfire; their injuries were non-life-threatening.[1][4][5]
Suspect[edit]
The suspect, Emanuel Kidega Samson, was a 25-year-old Sudanese native residing legally in the United States, having arrived as a child in 1996. He was allegedly carrying two handguns, a 9mm and a .40-caliber, and was wearing a ski mask at the time of the attack.[1][4][6]
Samson had been licensed to work as an unarmed security guard from 2014-16, although his license was expired and he had been seeking its reinstatement.[7] Samson is a former member of the Burnette Chapel Church.[8]
A review of Samson's Facebook page by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found sympathies and interests to black supremacist figures and groups like the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam, as well as an affinity for conspiracy theories.[9] In the days leading up to the shooting, he posted "several cryptic messages" on his Facebook page.[1]
Samson had had two domestic disputes with his girlfriend in Murfreesboro in January and February earlier that year, but was not arrested. Three months earlier, he reportedly told his father that he was about to commit suicide, which prompted a police response.[10]
Immediately after the shooting, Samson was later charged with first-degree murder.[11] In a police interview, Samson suggested he was hearing voices and had a vision of the Burnette Chapel Church.[5]
Samson was scheduled to appear in Davidson County General Sessions court on September 27, and is being held at a county jail without bond. He allegedly had additional weapons in his vehicle,[1] as well as a note that referenced the Charleston church shooting of 2015.[5]
On October 6, it was reported that a preliminary hearing had been set for October 23, 2017.[12]
Aftermath and reactions[edit]
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry said, "This is a terrible tragedy for our city. My heart aches for the family and friends of the deceased as well as for the wounded victims and their loved ones."[13]
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said he was "praying for the victims and committed to supporting the Antioch community in the aftermath of this tragedy." The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice have both launched civil rightsinvestigations.[8][14]
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References[edit]
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- ^ Boucher, Dave (September 24, 2017). "Nashville police identify 'hero' usher who confronted church shooter". The Tennessean. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Caron, Christina (September 24, 2017). "Shooting at Tennessee Church Leaves One Dead and Seven Wounded". The New York Times. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Gee, Brandon (September 24, 2017). "Masked gunman rampages through Nashville church; usher uses personal weapon to subdue shooter". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Tamburin, Adam (October 23, 2017). "Antioch church shooting suspect made comments about visions, voices during police interview". The Tennessean. Retrieved November 11,2017.
- ^ "Tennessee Church Suspect May Have Sought Charleston Revenge". U.S. News & World Report. Associated Press. September 29, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
- ^ Sterling, Joe; Lynch, Jamiel; Grinberg, Emanuella (September 25, 2017). "New details emerge about suspected gunman in Tennessee church shooting". CNN. Retrieved November 11,2017.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Andone, Dakin; Gamble, Justin; Watts, Amanda (September 24, 2017). "Shooter kills one, wounds 7 at Tennessee church". CNN. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
- ^ Johnson, Daryl (October 12, 2017). "DOJ opens a civil rights investigation of Antioch shooting". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
- ^ Alund, Natalie Neysa; Rau, Nate (September 25, 2017). "Nashville church shooting suspect made cryptic Facebook posts". USA Today. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
- ^ Silva, Daniella; Stelloh, Tom; Connor, Tracy (September 25, 2017). "Suspect Charged With Murder in Mass Shooting at Tennessee Church". NBC News. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
- ^ Alund, Natalie Neysa (October 6, 2017). "Antioch church shooting suspect's preliminary hearing set for later this month". The Tennessean. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- ^ "Nashville Mayor Megan Barry Statement on Burnette Chapel Church of Christ Shooting". www.nashville.gov. September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ Gibson, Jake (September 24, 2017). "Deadly Tennessee church shooting: Sudanese immigrant arrested, FBI launches civil rights investigation". Fox News. Retrieved September 25,2017.
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Man charged with shooting in Tennessee church pleads not guilty ... https://www.reuters.com/.../man-charged-with-shooting-in-tennessee-church-pleads-n... Mar 28, 2018 - Emanuel Kidega Samson, 26, entered the plea in a Davidson County criminal court on the 43-count indictment for the shooting at the Nashville ..
10/22/2017 sun Police: Church shooting suspect noted 'visions,' 'voices' ABC News Police: Church shooting suspect noted 'visions,' 'voices' ... The Sunday shooting rampage killed 38-year-old Melanie L. Crow of Smyrna, Tennessee. told police he heard voices and had visions, including an image of that particular church, a detective testified in court Monday. Nashville Police Detective Steve Jolley said 25-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson wouldn't say much else about his vision of Burnette Chapel Church of Christ, when pressed by police during an interview. "He was just very vague and he didn't really elaborate on anything," Jolley said at a hearing in Davidson County General Sessions Court. a note found in Samson's car made reference to a white supremacist's 2015 massacre at a South Carolina black church, a detail that The Associated Press first reported. The note found on the dashboard read something like, "Dylann Roof was less than nothing," Jolley said.
The 'Alt-Right' May Have Been Right About Tennessee Shooter [anti-white hatee].Newsweek Sep 30, 2017 - they potentially validate—at least in one critical respect—the concerns of some “alt-right” activists who view the case as a “reverse Dylann Roof” ... may have been carried out in retaliation for the deadly attack perpetrated by white supremacist Roof...based upon a note the suspect allegedly left behind in his car. ... Brad Griffin, an alt-right political organizer who is a prominent voice in the white nationalist community, spoke to Newsweek ... he believes the so-called liberal media used the news surrounding Roof’s shooting spree—... whether he feels the media will cover the circumstances around Samson’s alleged shooting in the same way, he demurs. Chuck Johnson, a conservative editor who runs the website Gotnews.com, which is popular in alt-right circles, called the Antioch shooting suspect a “black power radical” in an article he ran on his site, based on screenshots he said he took from the suspect’s Facebook page. He called the alleged shooter’s dislike of whites “obvious.” “I don’t like this racial violence on either side,” Johnson says of parallels he sees between the Antioch and Roof attacks.
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A man charged in a mass shooting at a Tennessee church expressed suicidal ... Melanie Smith, 39, of Smyrna, Tenn., was killed in the parking lot. gunfire erupted while worshipers were gathered in the sanctuary for Sunday morning services, praying at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee, which Samson used to attend. []ARMED LIKE TERRORIST Samson had two semiautomatic pistols on him when he entered the church. Both were still loaded with multiple rounds after the shooting ended, and Samson was wearing a "tactical vest" with three more loaded magazines of ammunition, said Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department motive unclear: authorities are "continuing to investigate the motive. sat in his car, police said, waiting for several minutes before church let out. Samson then began to shoot when he saw Melanie Crow Smith, 39, of Smyrna, in the parking lot. Smith died at the scene. According to Nashville police accounts, Samson then charged into the church and began "firing randomly," hitting six people inside, all without seeming to say a word. had previous encounters with local police, including one after a relative worried he was suicidal, according to police records released Monday.
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shooter, identified by police as Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene. He was taken into custody and is at the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds, police said. You can read more about Emanuel Samson here.
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Emergency responders were called to the Pin Hook Road church at 11:17 a.m., according to Metro Nashville Fire Department dispatch audio. One person was taken into custody at the scene. The shooter is among those wounded, the fire department says. One of the victims was in more serious condition than the others. The victims include three women and three men, police said. Two were in critical condition and the others are stable, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center spokesman told The Tennessean.
“The two critical patients suffered gunshot wounds to (their) chest and torso. The four other patients suffered gunshot wounds to their extremities,” John Howser told the newspaper.
The surviving victims include Minister Joey Spann, who is in critical condition, and his wife, Peggy Spann, 65, who is in stable condition. The other victims are now all in stable condition: Linda Bush, 68; William Jenkins, 83; Marlene Jenkins, 84; Katherine Dickerson, 64; and Robert Engle, 22, the usher who stopped the gunman, police said.
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1. The Gunman, Wearing a Ski Mask, Opened Fire as Church Was Letting Out, Police Say
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Police said at a briefing that the shooting happened as church was being let out. The gunman was wearing a “neoprene ski type mask, a police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters. Aaron said rumors the gunman was wearing a clown mask do not appear to be true, the mask was “more like what you would see on a skier.”
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The caller told dispatchers there were multiple victims and a “suspect wearing a clown mask.” A witness also told a local news station that the gunman was wearing a mask.
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“One woman who was walking to her vehicle was immediately fatally wounded by the gunman, who we believe then entered the rear of the church, other persons were still inside the rear of the building, the gunman opened fire on them, multiple rounds were fired inside the church, police said at a press conference.
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2. The Gunman Shot Himself After Being Confronted by a Church Member With a Handgun
The shooter, who has been identified as Emanuel Samson, police spokesman Don Aaron said at a gunman is in his 20s, Aaron at a press briefing outside the church.
A motive for the shooting was not immediately known. Police initially said Samson did not have any ties to the church, but spokesman Don Aaron later told reporters the suspect was a former member of the church.
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“The gunman was wounded by a self-inflicted shot,” a police spokesman said. “He too has been taken to the hospital. One of the church members, upon seeing the gunman doing this action inside the church, ran up and confronted him. He was pistol-whipped by the gunman,” Aaron told reporters.
Police said the gunman then accidentally shot himself in the leg. The member of the church who confronted him was an usher, according to police. He has a permit to legally carry a handgun, and ran to his car to retrieve his gun after being struck by the shooter. He then went back into the church and held the shooter at gunpoint, police said. Aaron called him an “exceptionally brave individual.” He was bleeding from the head, but was able to talk to police and walk into an ambulance on his own.
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abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-churchgoers-wounded-tennessee-shooting/story?id...2 hours ago - The shooting at Burnett's Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee, started in thechurch's parking lot, according to police and the ...
The Latest: Church shooting suspect charged with murder - ABC News
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-police-gunman-kills-injures-church-5006041415 mins ago - A man accused of killing one person and wounding several others at a Tennessee churchhas been charged with one count of murder.
Antioch church shooting suspect Emanuel Samson indicted
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Investigators say Samson quickly admitted to opening fire outside the church. ... Tennessee Published 12:30 p.m. CT March 19, 2018 | Updated 9:50 p.m. CT March 19, 2018 ..... Police say Emanuel Kidega Samson opened fire at a church in ...
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Jun 7, 2018 - 636418851313709510-Emanuel-Kidega-Samson.jpg ... More: Antioch church shooting suspect Emanuel Samson indicted on 43 counts, ...
Emanuel Samson, Antioch church shooting suspect, pleads not guilty
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Emanuel K. Samson was indicted on 43 criminal charges, including murder, civil rights intimidation and ... 9:45 a.m. CT March 28, 2018 | Updated 3:19 p.m. CT March 28, 2018 ..... Police say Emanuel Kidega Samson opened fire at a church in ...
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One Killed, Six Wounded in Church Shooting in Tennessee - NBC News
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2 hours ago - One person was killed and six other people were wounded when a gunman opened fire Sunday morning at a church in Antioch, Tennessee. ... The woman who was killed was identified as Melanie Smith, 39, of Smyrna, Tennessee. ... Fire services respond to Burnett's Chapel Church of Christ in ...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/us/church-shooting-tennessee.html?mcubz=32 hours ago - A gunman who opened fire at a church in Antioch, Tenn., on Sunday shot himself and was in custody, the police said.
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www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/.../one-killed-in-nashville-tenn-church-shooting8 hours ago - Gunman opens fire at Church of Christ Burnette Chapel on Pin Hook Road. 1 woman dead in parking lot...6 other innocents shot...
Gunman identified in Tennessee church shooting that left 1 dead, 6 ...
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The Latest: Church shooting suspect charged with murder - ABC News
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-police-gunman-kills-injures-church-5006041415 mins ago - A man accused of killing one person and wounding several others at a Tennessee churchhas been charged with one count of murder.
Antioch church shooting suspect Emanuel Samson indicted
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/.../2018/03/...emanuel-samson.../438480002/
Investigators say Samson quickly admitted to opening fire outside the church. ... Tennessee Published 12:30 p.m. CT March 19, 2018 | Updated 9:50 p.m. CT March 19, 2018 ..... Police say Emanuel Kidega Samson opened fire at a church in ...
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Emanuel Samson, Antioch church shooting suspect, pleads not guilty
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/.../2018/03/...emanuel-samson.../439374002/
Emanuel K. Samson was indicted on 43 criminal charges, including murder, civil rights intimidation and ... 9:45 a.m. CT March 28, 2018 | Updated 3:19 p.m. CT March 28, 2018 ..... Police say Emanuel Kidega Samson opened fire at a church in ...
The 'Alt-Right' May Have Been Right About Tennessee Shooter ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A prosecutor said Monday that a black man charged with fatally shooting a woman and wounding seven people at a Nashville church aimed to kill at least 10 white churchgoers and cited a 2015 massacre at a black church in South Carolina.Nashville Deputy District Attorney Amy Hunter made the comments during opening statements in the trial of Emanuel Kidega Samson, 27. Prosecutors have said they're seeking life without parole for Samson, who faces a 43-count indictment, including a first-degree murder charge, in the September 2017 shooting at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.
Members of the church packed the courtroom, at times becoming emotional when attorneys and witnesses recounted a Sunday filled with chaos, tragedy and heroism. The shooting rampage killed 38-year-old Melanie L. Crow of Smyrna, Tennessee. She was shot in the church parking lot, and dropped her Bible and notes from a recently concluded worship ceremony that had just concluded, Hunter said.
Samson, who used to attend the church, is black and the victims are white. Hunter explained that a note in Samson's car cited white supremacist Dylann Roof's massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. It also referenced the red, black and green Pan-African flag, sometimes called RBG.
"Dylann Roof is less than nothing," the note read, Hunter said. "The blood that 10 of your kind will shed is that of the color upon the RBG flag in terms of vengeance." The note included an expletive and ended with a smiley face, Hunter said.
"This state will prove beyond all reasonable doubt that on Sept. 24, 2017, this defendant, Emanuel Kidega Samson, went to the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ with the intent to murder a minimum of 10 white churchgoers on that day," Hunter said. "You won't have to take the state's word for it though."
Hunter also said the calamity revealed a "true life hero."
Churchgoer Robert Caleb Engle has testified that during the rampage, he twice confronted the gunman, who was wearing a tactical vest and a motorcycle-style mask with a clown smile on it. Engle said he was pistol-whipped three times in the head. At one point, he pushed the gun back on the shooter and a shot fired, striking the gunman and sending him to the ground.
Engle said his father kicked the gun away, stood on the shooter's hand and told Engle to go get his gun out of his truck.
Engle came back with his weapon, put his foot on the shooter's back and stood guard until first responders arrived.
A judge's order had kept many details of the case secret until trial. - (Black-on-white)
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