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3 die in Atlanta church shooting
BY LOUISE CHU
Associated Press
ATLANTA - A woman opened fire at an Atlanta church before services started Sunday morning, killing her mother and the minister before committing suicide.
Congregants of Turner Monumental AME Church said Shelia W. Chaney Wilson, 43, was agitated when she came to the church in the Kirkwood neighborhood on the city's east side.
Wilson apparently shot the Rev. Johnny Clyde Reynolds after he greeted her and was walking away with his back to her, said Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley. Police think Wilson then shot her mother, Jennie Mae Robinson, once in the head before turning the gun on herself.
One woman in the sanctuary at the time fled after the first shot was fired, and the other took cover behind a pulpit, Quigley said. He said an assistant pastor came in after hearing shots and found the three bodies.
Geraldine Andrews, the pastor's daughter-in-law and a friend of Wilson's family, said Robinson recently took her daughter out of a mental health facility.
Church member Debra Mitchell said Wilson had recently lost her job. "We knew she has some instability, but we didn't know it was this deep," she said.
The shootings happened before most worshippers arrived for church.
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