{"id":1520666,"date":"2022-06-17T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520666"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:19:33","slug":"hero-church-goer-subdued-active-shooter-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hero-church-goer-subdued-active-shooter-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hero\u2019 Church-Goer Subdued Active Shooter, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhero-church-goer-subdued-active-shooter-police-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Police announced on Friday that a \u201chero\u201d church-goer subdued an active shooter who killed two people and injured another at an Alabama church on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The lone suspect, who was an \u201coccasional attendee of the church\u201d and a 71-year-old white male, attended a dinner at St. Stephen\u2019s Episcopal Church on Thursday night, Vestavia Hills Police Department Captain Shane Ware <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I99Sna4fIcE?t=145\">stated<\/a> during a press conference on Friday morning. The suspect began shooting at some point with a handgun, striking three victims, until he was stopped by a church-goer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cAnother attendee at the event subdued the suspect, and held him down until law enforcement arrived,\u201d Ware reported. Ware referred to the person who subdued the suspect as a \u201chero,\u201d noting that the act of heroism was \u201cextremely critical in saving lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Police say someone at the church event subdued the suspect. VHPD Captain Shane Ware called that person a hero. Officers aren\u2019t identifying the suspect until warrants are signed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS_42?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBS_42<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VdUzBCPUJ7\">pic.twitter.com\/VdUzBCPUJ7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Clark (@mclarkreports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mclarkreports\/status\/1537808050538553344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) released a statement after the deadly shooting, saying, \u201cThis should never happen,\u201d The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-one-killed-multiple-injured-in-alabama-church-shooting\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we are learning about the shocking and tragic loss of a life at St. Stephen\u2019s Episcopal Church in Vestavia, we want to offer our prayers for the victim\u2019s family, the injured and the entire church community,\u201d Ivey said. \u201cI am glad to hear the shooter is in custody. This should never happen \u2014 in a church, in a store, in the city or anywhere. We continue to closely monitor the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked Ware if police knew what motivated the suspect, Ware said that \u201cit is still being looked into by too many agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victims were identified by Ware as Walter Rainey, an 84-year-old male; Sarah Yeager, a 75-year-old female; and an unnamed 84-year-old female. Rainey was deceased at the scene of the event, and Yeager passed away at UAB Hospital. The unnamed female is being treated at a local hospital currently. All of the victims were white.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is currently in custody at the Vestavia Hills Police Department and will remain there while warrants for capital murder are issued by the Jefferson County District Attorney\u2019s office later on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no threat to the community,\u201d Ware stated during the press conference, adding that numerous agencies and detectives are actively investigating the case and still remain on scene at St. Stephen\u2019s Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>This shooting comes amid a number of other shootings that received national attention and led to calls for gun reform. Notably, in May, an 18-year-old gunman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shooter-kills-10-wounds-three-in-buffalo-grocery-store-authorities-investigating-as-racially-motivated-attack\">killed<\/a> 10 people and wounded three in a Buffalo grocery store, allegedly targeting the establishment because of racial hatred and extremist ideology, and another 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/uvalde-is-the-second-deadliest-school-shooting-on-record-heres-what-we-know\">killed<\/a> 21 people and wounded 17 at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>After these shootings, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-claims-gun-control-not-about-taking-away-rights-before-listing-ways-he-wants-to-take-away-rights\">called<\/a> for clamping down on Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights during a speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd if we can\u2019t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21, strengthen the background checks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police announced on Friday that a \u201chero\u201d church-goer subdued an active shooter who killed two people and injured another at an Alabama church on Thursday night. The lone suspect, who was an \u201coccasional attendee of the church\u201d and a 71-year-old white male, attended a dinner at St. Stephen\u2019s Episcopal Church on Thursday night, Vestavia Hills &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":1520773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}