Authorities identify gunman, victims in Texas church shooting

[lees1975]

Source: Dallas Morning News

The FBI said Kinnunen had roots in the area but indicated he may have been transient, with arrests in various jurisdictions. Public records show he had been arrested in Tarrant County and other states on charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/12/30/authorities-identify-gunman-victims-in-white-settlement-church-attack/

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Multiple charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. So how does the guy have a gun? Seems like if common sense gun laws had been in place, he wouldn't have been able to get hold of a weapon to shoot up a church.

[marble falls]

1. A lot of families with substance pay their criminally minded kids ...

to stay away.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Arrest/charge for that wouldn't necessarily disqualify someone, if the charges were later dropped.

Due process and all that.

Sucks though, this could have been prevented.

[alfredo]

3. A troubled man with a gun

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/river-oaks-man-battling-demon-identified-as-gunman-in-white-settlement-church-shooting/2284034/

[Judi Lynn]

4. Minister: Texas gunman grew angry in past over cash requests

Jake Bleiberg and Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
Updated 4:21 pm CST, Tuesday, December 31, 2019

DALLAS (AP) — The man who fatally shot two people at a Texas church was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial in 2012 and was repeatedly fed by the congregation but got angry when church officials refused to give him money, according to court records and the pastor.

It's unclear whether Keith Thomas Kinnunen's extensive criminal record and psychological history would have barred him from legally buying the shotgun he used during Sunday's attack at the West Freeway Church of Christ in the Fort Worth-area town of White Settlement.

Kinnunen, 43, shot worshipers Richard White and Anton “Tony” Wallace in the sanctuary before a member of the church's volunteer security team shot and killed him, according to police and witnesses.

Minister Britt Farmer told The Christian Chronicle that he recognized Kinnunen after seeing a photo of him without the fake beard, wig, hat and long coat he wore as a disguise to the service. Kinnunen visited the congregation several other times this year and was given food but denied money, the minister said.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Minister-Texas-gunman-grew-angry-in-past-over-14941456.php#photo-18818456

[MarcA]

5. The shooter should have been banished from Society before this happened

to either prison or a type of modern day Devil's Island to live among his own kind.
Until this is done to people who have shown this anti-social and threatening behavior
to others, this will continue to happen even if it does not result in deaths, and the law
will merely be a processing system to clean up after the events. Or maybe it is time to
set up private communities where one has to be approved before entry to begin with.

[sarisataka]

6. Who gets to decide

Who should be banished from society. Will there be a committee to review everyone for antisocial behavior?