Fort Worth church knows ‘all too well’ the horror of a mass shooting
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http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/16/us/gu ... worth.htmlOn Sept. 15, 1999, horror struck Fort Worth’s Wedgwood Baptist Church when Larry Gene Ashbrook invaded a youth rally carrying 200 rounds of ammunition and a pipe bomb
Baptist church in Fort Worth, a man with a semiautomatic handgun walked in and began firing, killing six people in the church before turning the gun on himself. An eighth person died later at a hospital, officials said. ...bomb exploded on a balcony inside the church sanctuary
A young man interviewed on CNN said the gunman paused at least once to reload his gun.
''I just saw him keep shooting and reloading,'' said the man, who was not identified. ''He'd empty it and then throw some more bullets in there, and he kept shooting