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Original Source: AMERICAN MORNING
JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: The morning after a deadly church rampage. Police and parishioners want to know why. They say a man with a shotgun killed two people and wounded seven during a children's play on Sunday at the parish in Knoxville, Tennessee. The suspect, 58-year-old Jim Adkisson, has been charged with first degree murder.
CNN's Rusty Dornin is in Knoxville for us and she has the latest details -- Rusty.
RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: John and Kiran, investigators kept many of the church members here for hours interviewing them, trying to piece together the timeline. Nearly 200 people were watching a performance, a children's performance of "Annie" when the unbelievable happened.
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DORNIN (voice-over): When parishioners at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church first heard the crack of gunfire, some thought it might be part of the children's play they were watching. But confusion gave way to panic as many church members dove under pews or tried to flee as a man continued to fire a 12-gauge shotgun into the congregation.
Witnesses say when a white male first appeared at the door, he fired a shotgun point blank at one church member and then began firing randomly. According to witnesses, the suspect, now identified as 58- year-old Jim Adkisson, paused to reload his gun, then he was tackled by two church members.