WACO TRIB: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor said Monday that a black man charged with fatally shooting a woman and wounding seven people at a Nashville church aimed to kill at least 10 white churchgoers and cited a 2015 massacre at a black church in South Carolina.
Nashville Deputy District Attorney Amy Hunter made the comments during opening statements in the trial of Emanuel Kidega Samson, 27. Prosecutors have said they’re seeking life without parole for Samson, who faces a 43-count indictment, including a first-degree murder charge, in the September 2017 shooting at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.
Samson’s attorney, Jennifer Lynn Thompson, countered that Samson’s true intention was to kill himself. He left a suicide note for his girlfriend and sent a goodbye video to his cousin, according to Thompson.
Members of the church packed the courtroom, at times becoming emotional when attorneys and witnesses recounted a Sunday filled with chaos, tragedy and heroism. The shooting rampage killed 38-year-old Melanie L. Crow of Smyrna, Tennessee. She was shot in the church parking lot, and dropped her Bible and notes from a recently concluded worship ceremony that had just concluded, Hunter said.
Samson, who used to attend the church, is black and the victims are white. Hunter explained that a note in Samson’s car cited white supremacist Dylann Roof’s massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. It also referenced the red, black and green Pan-African flag, sometimes called RBG.
“Dylann Roof is less than nothing,” the note read, Hunter said. “The blood that 10 of your kind will shed is that of the color upon the RBG flag in terms of vengeance.” The note included an expletive and ended with a smiley face, Hunter said.
At his own church, too. Piece of shit!
How does it feel to be led off to a home behind bars escorted by WHITE PEOPLE?
Would mixed race count as half?
Not enough strait jackets – rubber rooms, too – in this country these days. Or executed death sentences..
His lawyer says he intended to kill himself. Well Hell, why didn’t you say so. Let’s put this guy in a steel room, give him a gun with one bullet and let him finish what he started.
Ten? Why not twenty five or thirty? Long as they’re Christian.
I can’t take this shit anymore. There has got to be a stop to this
shit. All I have is a vote.
Only a mental deficient person thinks that the act of crazy dylan roof is reflective of the thoughts and aspirations of white people.
Dude. You were probably embraced by most, if not all, at thatchurch.
You have mental problems. Period. And life is not good when hate is in your heart. Same as the roof who triggered you.
Funny, I missed the hate crime count in there.
Well maybe your sentence will be the same as Roofs’
A black man on a shooting rampage?
Um, ah, did you know Taco Bell had a hepatitis outbreak recently? What’s the news on that?
What”s really needed is peopLe being allowed to arm themselves. This crap will stop.
This guy’s fine with it. They’ve recorded his jailhouse conversations and he is remorseless.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/accused-antioch-church-shooter-talks
It’s a hate crime with a body count and our legal system is afraid to charge it. He wrote a fucking letter saying he specifically wanted to kill white people as revenge for something no one at that church had anything to do with.
And what kills me is the local media keeps saying “alleged” and “suspected of”.
In the same part of town, last year we had an infamous shooting at a Waffle House where a literally insane white gunman opened fire, while butt assed naked, and killed a few people. Someone wrestled the gun away from him and there’s no “alleged shooter” or “suspect in the case”. He did it. The guy whom stopped him is a hero and been invited to MTV awards shows, meet the Obama’s, ESPN awards shows, met wit David Hogg, the lesbo, and all those Parkland turds, etc., etc.
The guy who stopped this Samson fuckwad is an old man with a cane and hasn’t been invited to shit. That dude is huge and this old man held him down.
…this is why I carry at church, with my Pastor’s blessing. That’s important in Ohio, because it’s a FELONY to carry at ANY religious institution without its authorization…
The demented are deserving of God’s justice………. I on the otherhand am praying for forgiveness…… My heart goes out to those slain and injured. Freedom has a price. I am sorry that there were no CCW holders in the congregation. I avoid any situation where I am an unarmed sitting duck. That includes any church that forbids me carry rights.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
We actually have it organized where if someone entered the church with hostile intent, they would be swiftly exposed to converging fire, since I’m not the ONLY carry there. The details aren’t important, but the architecture does lend itself to certain locations not being immediately noticable on entry, and the congregation knows to kneel under certain circumstances, leaving only the assailant upright and exposed…
Super
Likewise
I live in a small rural town and go to a smallish church (150 at Sunday service). We have a security team who watch when people come in. As soon as the service starts, the doors are locked with ‘greeters’ at each door. They carry.
Claudia, that sounds like Ava, MO. That’s exactly how they operate.
Claudia.
I wood framed structure?
Anonymous May 21, 2019 at 10:33 pm, I’m in Michigan, but I believe there are many churches that are adopting armed security lately.
The left wants us dead, so people across the USA are getting serious about protecting themselves. We can’t let them have their way.
He’s Sudanese, another great immigrant brought to us by the Obozo administration.
They worked diligently to eliminate this country’s cohesion by implanting scores of third world miscreants to provoke chaos.
Obama will never face justice for all the harm he’s done to this
country at least not in this world. Worse still is we’ll never experience the satisfaction of seeing it.
I’m sure this will be all over the evening news. /s