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Demovictory9

(32,445 posts)
Sat Jun 18, 2022, 02:07 AM Jun 2022

Alabama church shooting perp (killed 3) is 70 year old local gun dealer

A70-year-old registered gun dealer was charged with murder following a deadly church shooting that killed three people in Alabama.

Firearms dealer, 70, is charged with capital murder for killing two women aged 75 and 84 as well as man, 84, after showing up to 'Boomers Pot Luck' party at Alabama church he didn't attend

The suspect in the shooting deaths of three seniors at a church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills was named as Robert Findlay Smith, 70

Smith is a local firearms dealer who was previously accused of and acquitted of impersonating a police officer

The church, St Stephen's Episcopal, was hosting a 'Boomers Potluck' at the time of the shooting, according to their website
Cops said the gunman was attending the event at the time of the shooting
Smith was previously described as an 'occasional attendee of the church'
Police said a 'hero' Good Samaritan who also attended the event prevented more casualties by restraining the suspect at the scene holding him until cops arrived
Smith faces capital murder charges. He is being held without bond\



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10928839/PICTURED-Firearms-dealer-70-charged-capital-murder-killing-three-Alabama-church.html

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Alabama church shooting perp (killed 3) is 70 year old local gun dealer (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jun 2022 OP
The republicons will make sure he doesn't serve time and keeps his gun shop MagickMuffin Jun 2022 #1
The only person who can stop a bad gun dealer with a gun from his own shop is a GOOD gun dealer with NCLefty Jun 2022 #2
exactly Demovictory9 Jun 2022 #3
Why exactly North Shore Chicago Jun 2022 #4
You're a law abiding gun owner (or gun store owner) until the day you aren't. OrlandoDem2 Jun 2022 #5
Adding this here malaise Jun 2022 #6
thanks Demovictory9 Jun 2022 #8
He thinks he's won something. "I showed them!" Midnight Writer Jun 2022 #7

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
2. The only person who can stop a bad gun dealer with a gun from his own shop is a GOOD gun dealer with
Sat Jun 18, 2022, 02:22 AM
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