Stories tagged with: shooting

• Police shoot, arrest man after he interrupted church service

  by Dianna L. Cagle/Biblical Recorder, posted Monday, June 01, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  WAXHAW, N.C. (BP) -- A worship service at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Waxhaw, N.C., ended abruptly Sunday morning May 24 after a disturbance by a neighbor led to a police-involved shooting.

  Pastor Rich Myers said the church bears "no ill will" toward its neighbor. Read More

• Louisiana pastor arrested after interstate shooting

  by Biblical Recorder staff, posted Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  BATON ROUGE (BP) -- Louisiana pastor Christopher "Checkerz" Williams was arrested Feb. 11 after allegedly firing a handgun at an 18-wheeler in a road-rage incident on Interstate 10 in St. James Parish.

  The truck driver told police that Williams, 47, fired a handgun at his vehicle after Williams caused a minor crash, according to local news reports. Williams fled the scene. Read More

• Wedgwood tragedy 20 years later: 'He is faithful'

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, September 16, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- For Tralissa Griffin, whose daughter Cassie was among those who lost their lives at Wedgwood Baptist Church 20 years ago, healing began with God's comforting voice.

  For Cassie's father David, his shaken faith was strengthened when he saw a vision of his 14-year-old daughter praising God at His heavenly throne. Read More

• Va. Beach tragedy: Bapt. church mourns loss

  by Grace Thornton, posted Monday, June 03, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (BP) -- A Virginia Baptist church is mourning the loss of one of its own in the wake of a mass shooting that left 12 dead in a Virginia Beach office building on Friday (May 31).

  The tragedy also opened the door for Virginia pastor David Platt to share the Gospel as he prayed over President Donald Trump during an unexpected visit from Washington, D.C., to nearby McLean Bible Church in Vienna on Sunday morning (June 2). Read More

• Las Vegas: Deeper faith urged 1 year after tragedy

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, October 01, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  LAS VEGAS (BP) -- Pastor Brett Capaci likened Oct. 1, 2017 in Las Vegas to a terroristic 9/11 moment that even evoked the tears Jesus shed at Lazarus' grave in Bethany more than 2000 years earlier.

  "Our city in large measure fell into deep sadness, disappointment, disillusionment.... It was a 9/11 moment," Capaci said of the day Stephen Paddock stood in an upper window of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino and began firing a gun that could spew hundreds of rounds a minute, killing 58 and injuring about 500 at an outdoor concert.

  Instead of questioning Jesus' presence in the tragedy, as sisters Mary and Martha did in the biblical account of Lazarus' death, Capaci encouraged Shadow Hills Baptist Church Sept. 30 to draw deeper into their faith. Read More

• 'Be the light' urged after Jacksonville shootings

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, August 27, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) -- Four deaths and 13 injuries from shootings at two sporting events this past weekend in Jacksonville, Fla., have leaders lamenting "a new normal" of violence amid calls to prayer that seemingly fade away.

  Three were killed and 11 injured in a mass shooting at a high stakes video game tournament Sunday (Aug. 26) in downtown Jacksonville, following the killing of one and the injury of two others at a high security Friday night high school football game just seven miles away. The violence follows the Valentine's Day 2018 massacre of 14 students and staff at a Parkland, Fla., high school that also injured 17. Read More

• Waffle House shooting suspect arrested following 'scary' Sunday

  by David Roach, posted Monday, April 23, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- With the lone suspect in a Nashville mass shooting still on the loose Sunday morning, area churches tightened security and heightened their focus on prayer.

  "It was a scary thing to a lot of our people," said Cathey Williams, the ministry assistant at Hickory Hollow Baptist Church, which is less than two miles from a Waffle House where Travis Reinking is accused of killing four people and injuring four others shortly after 3 a.m. April 22. Read More

• Fla. school tragedy: Prayer enlisted as tears abound

  by Art Toalston, posted Friday, February 16, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  PARKLAND, Fla. (BP) -- Amid the pressing anguish from the school shooting that claimed 17 lives in Florida, Baptists nationwide can come alongside victims and families by interceding in prayer, key Baptist leaders said in sorrow-laden statements.

  Tommy Green, executive director of the Florida Baptist Convention, stated, "We ask that our Southern Baptist family join us in specific prayer this Sunday for those impacted by this horrific event. Our prayer is for God to grant comfort, mercy, and peace to these families." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The pastors, they were there

  by Paul Chitwood, posted Friday, January 26, 2018 (6 years ago)

  As anxious parents of students at Marshall County High School waited to learn who may have been killed or wounded when a student opened fire on his classmates, pastors were in their midst to convey God's compassion. Read More

• Ky. leader & pastors minister amid shooting aftermath

  by Kentucky Today & Western Recorder, posted Wednesday, January 24, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  BENTON, Ky. (BP) -- The school shooting in Kentucky provided Baptist leader Paul Chitwood an extraordinary opportunity for ministry Tuesday (Jan. 23) among families of the two students killed and 17 others injured in a classmate's melee.

  Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, was visiting with Marshall County pastors when he received word of the shootings at Marshall County High School, about 20 miles southeast of Paducah.

  The alleged 15-year-old shooter, who was disrupted by a Marshall County ... Read More