Jim Adkisson is the perpetrator of a deadly attack on the congregants of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.Fox News: Church Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison (February 9, 2009) Two church members were killed and five others hospitalized in the shooting, which took place without warning on July 27, 2008. Adkisson pleaded guilty to the attacks in February of 2009 and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.Fox News: Church Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison (February 9, 2009)
Background
According to interviews with Adkisson's neighbors, he considered himself a "Confederate" devotee of the Old South and held an antipathy to Christianity based on his own upbringing. In a suicide note left at his home before the killings, Adkisson referred to the planned shootings as a "hate crime" and called the Unitarian church "a den of un-American vipers." He said he would have liked to kill every Democrat in the congress, were the option open to him.Fox News: Church Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison (February 9, 2009)
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Resident of Knox County, Tennessee
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Greg McKendry (age 60), Linda Kraeger, (age 61)
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Convicted on two counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murderFox News: Church Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison (February 9, 2009)
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Used a shotgun
