Jim Adkisson
Jim Adkisson is the alleged perpetrator of a deadly attack on the congregants of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.1 Two church members were killed and five others hospitalized in the shooting, which took place when a gunman stormed in and opened fire without warning on July 27, 2008.
Fast Facts
- Age: 58
- Resident of Knox County, Tennessee
- Arrested at the scene
- Charged with first-degree murder1
- Held on $1 million bond
- Shooting took place during Sunday morning services
- Attacker used a shotgun
Background
According to interviews with Adkisson's neighbors, he considered himself a "Confederate"—a devotee of the Old South—and held an antipathy to Christianity based on his own upbringing.2 1
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