WHITE SETTLEMENT, TX โ A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot to death by congregants who fired back, police said.
Authorities at a Sunday evening news conference praised the two congregants who opened fire as part of a volunteer security team at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement.
Authorities said there were more than 240 parishioners in the West Freeway Church at the time of the shooting.
And in 1999, a gunman killed seven people in Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth before detonating an explosive device and killing himself.
Sunday's shooting in Texas was also the second attack on a religious gathering in the U.S. in less than 24 hours.