Church shooter left letter citing 'hatred of liberals' as his motivation

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Police: Accused church shooter wanted to be killed
4-page letter outlines frustration, hatred of liberals

By Hayes Hickman (Contact), Don Jacobs (Contact)
Originally published 07:44 a.m., July 28, 2008
Updated 10:28 a.m., July 28, 2008

The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday's mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley
Unitarian Universalist Church planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville
Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning.

Jim D. Adkisson, 58, of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he described his
feelings and why he committed the shooting, Owen said.

Adkisson said he was frustrated about not being able to obtain a job and how much
he hated the liberal movement, Owen said.

The letter, recovered from Adkisson's 2004 Ford Escape parked in the church's parking
lot at 2931 Kingston Pike, indicates he had been planning the shooting for about a week.

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