... killed was a hero. "Greg McKendry stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us," Barbara Kemper said. The church's minister was on vacation in western North Carolina at the time of the shooting but returned ...

... when the suspect entered the church, pulled out a semiautomatic shotgun and fired three fatal blasts. Church member Barbara Kemper said the gunman shouted "hateful words" before he opened fire, but police investigators said other witnesses didn ...