Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Alabama Shooting Rampage

A gunman on a terrifying rampage across two southern Alabama counties killed at least nine people Tuesday, including members of his own family and apparent strangers, and burned down his mother's home before shooting himself at a metals plant. The afternoon of bloodshed began in Kinston, near the Alabama-Florida border, where the shooter burned down his mother's house. He killed his granny and granddaddy and aunt and uncle. The towns of Geneva and Samson are near the Florida border in southeast Alabama. Geneva's population is about 4,400 and Samson, 2,000. The victims are dead and the assailant is dead but their families are left undoubtedly traumatized. Please lets keep the families of all of these ten people in prayer and be careful each day to pray for the minds and hearts and conditions of even people whom we do not know. My heart aches in this situation.

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