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

1. Age: 58
2. Resident of Knox County, Tennessee
3. Arrested at the scene
4. Charged with first-degree murder¹
5. Held on $1 million bond
6. Shooting took place during Sunday morning services
7. 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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