BREAKING: Authorities update on shooting at AL church meeting:
- Suspect is a white 71-year-old male and “occasional attendee of the church.”
- Another attendee “subdued the suspect and held him down” until police arrived.
- Suspect acted alone.https://t.co/2y6catLomp pic.twitter.com/cJzXXMsrPy— ABC News (@ABC) June 17, 2022
An 84-year-old man and a 75-year-old woman were shot dead at a small church group meeting in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, Thursday night, authorities said.
The suspect — a 71-year-old man who occasionally attended Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church — is in custody, Vestavia Hills Police said at a news conference Friday.
The gunman also wounded an 84-year-old woman, police said.
The suspect was at the church event, known as the “boomers potluck dinner,” when he took out a handgun and opened fire, police said. A motive is not clear, police said.