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Members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church and leaders of the Taiwanese American Community will speak at a news conference Saturday at the church where a gunman opened fire last weekend, killing a doctor who tackled the shooter and likely saved lives.

The man accused of opening fire on a Southern California church congregation because of his political hatred of Taiwan dubbed himself a “destroying” angel in a seven-volume diary sent to a newspaper before the attack, the paper said Wednesday.

The California shooting suspect’s contacts shed light on his interactions, anti-police stance and beliefs about China-Taiwan unification.

The man accused of shooting six people in a Laguna Woods church on Sunday, killing one and injuring five, made his first court appearance on Tuesday.

Taiwan’s president condemned the shooting at a Taiwanese church in Orange County after authorities said Monday that the suspect was driven by hatred of the island.

Compelling pictures taken inside the Laguna Woods church Sunday after parishioners tackled and hogtied a mass shooting suspect were released Monday. The powerful images show a group of congregants holding down the 68-year-old suspected shooter, who authorities say traveled to the Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods in Orange County from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Authorities Monday have identified the man killed when a gunman opened fire Sunday inside a Southern California church as John Cheng, a 52-year-old physician.

Authorities identified the gunman suspected of opening fire inside an Orange County church, killing one and injuring five, as a 68-year-old Las Vegas man.

At least five people have been hit in a shooting at a church in the Laguna Woods area of Orange County, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department

A man who was under a restraining order and not supposed to have a gun fatally shot his three daughters and a chaperone before killing himself during a supervised visit with the girls at a Sacramento County church, officials said Tuesday.

A man who was under a restraining order and not supposed to have a gun fatally shot his three daughters, a chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls at a Sacramento County church, officials said Tuesday.

A father killed his three children, a fourth person and himself Monday inside a church in Sacramento. Cheryl Hurd reports.

The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims’ families of the 2017 Sutherland Spring church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting.

The armed churchgoer who stopped a gunman who opened fire inside a White Settlement church last month and killed two people was awarded the state’s highest honor at the Texas Governor’s Mansion Monday morning. Jack Wilson was awarded the Governor’s Medal of Courage, the state’s highest civilian honor, for stopping an armed man who brought a gun into the...

The man who opened fire inside a White Settlement church, killing two people before being shot to death, was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial in 2012 and was repeatedly fed by the congregation before he grew angry when church officials refused to give him money, according to court records and the minister. Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43, brought a shotgun…

A gunman who killed two people during a North Texas church service was fatally shot within seconds by the church’s head of security who says he feels like he “killed an evil,” not a human. Jack Wilson, 71, posted on Facebook late Sunday night that he “had to take out an active shooter in church.” Wilson said he was head…

The man who fatally shot two people at a White Settlement Church on Sunday before being killed by church security has been identified as a 43-year-old Keith Thomas Kinnunen, a River Oaks man described by his ex-wife as “battling a demon” and “not nice to anyone.”

The daughter of one of two victims shot and killed Sunday morning at West Freeway Church of Christ is speaking out.