The suspect, who is in custody, shot dead Walter Rainey, 84, and Sarah Yeager, 75, during a small group's potluck dinner at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills outside Birmingham, police said. The third gunshot victim, an 84-year-old woman whose family requested her name be withheld, died Friday at a hospital, Vestavia Hills police said. The shooting is the latest in a US house of worship and came on the eve of Friday's seventh anniversary of the massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A prayer vigil was scheduled for late Friday morning at nearby Saint Luke's Episcopal Church. Church members gather for a prayer circle in Vestavia on Thursday night after the shooting at Saint Stephen's.

Source: CNN June 17, 2022 21:36 UTC