Congregants returned to Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, on Sunday, just days after a 70-year-old former gun dealer murdered three of their number during a monthly “Boomer’s Potluck” dinner in the parish hall. The church’s rector, the Rev. John Burress, was in Greece at the time of the shooting but returned to …
A 70-year-old licensed firearms dealer has been charged with three counts of capital murder in a shooting Thursday evening at an Alabama church potluck. Walter Bartlett Rainey, 84, was pronounced dead at the scene at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, southeast of Birmingham. Sarah Yeager, 75, and Jane Pounds, 84, were taken to …
A 71-year-old man opened fire at an Alabama church potluck Thursday night, killing two people and wounding another. Vestavia Hills Police Captain Shane Ware said the man was “an occasional attendee” of Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, where the shooting took place shortly after 6 p.m. Ware identified the dead as 84-year-old Walter Rainey and 75-year-old …
