Mr. Samson, 27, is black and the victims are white. About 50 people were in the Antioch, Tenn., church, the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ, at the time of the shooting. Mr. Samson, a legal resident of the United States who immigrated from Sudan in the 1990s, had attended the church a year or two before the shooting, the police said. Less than an hour before the shooting, three cryptic posts were made in quick succession on a Facebook page associated with him. Four minutes later: “Become the creator instead of what’s created.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2019 23:56 UTC