WHITE SETTLEMENT, TEXAS—A gunman who killed two people during a Texas church service was fatally shot within seconds by armed congregants, said officials, who hailed the state’s gun laws that allow weapons in places of worship. Tiffany Wallace told Dallas TV station KXAS that her father, Anton “Tony” Wallace, was one of the people killed. That law was passed in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history, which was also at a church. In another attack in Texas in 1999, a gunman killed seven people in Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth before detonating an explosive device and killing himself. An elder at the church told the Times that one of those killed was a security guard who responded to the shooter.

Source: thestar December 30, 2019 20:03 UTC