From what I've read, they don't know the motive yet.

Quotes from the first news article linked below:
“We don’t know the relationship (between the gunman and pastor), why he’s here or what the circumstances came about that caused him in the first place to be here,” Timmins said."

“We have no idea what this guy’s motives were,” Jones said outside the church. “We don’t know if we’ll ever know that.”

A quote from the second article gives an idea:
Last month, a man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif.

Copycat, perhaps? People read about something in the news and just say oh that's a good idea. Maybe he was angry at religion, at God, at the particular pastor... who knows... and just saw the previous shooting as a good start of an idea for him to get his own revenge, adding a twist to kill some people first. I remember seeing an episode of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman where a guy lost his wife, doctors couldn't save her. So he traveled around to all nearby towns shooting doctors in his anger and grief. Something similar to that, perhaps.
Source(s):
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1073983.html
http://www.inforum.com/event/apArticle/id/D96Q2PE00/


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