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The suspect, 25-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson, immigrated from Sudan two decades ago, police said. He's suspected of bringing at least two pistols and a mask to the predominantly white Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, southeast of Nashville, before opening fire.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department tweeted that Samson had been released from the hospital and will be charged with murder and attempted
"The Memphis FBI Field Office's Nashville Resident Agency, the Civil Rights Division, and the US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee have opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee. The FBI will collect all available facts and evidence," FBI Memphis told Fox News.
An usher, identified as Robert Engle, 22, confronted the gunman at one point and was pistol-whipped, causing "significant injury around his head," police added. They said Engle went to his own car, grabbed a pistol and headed back into the church.
Law enforcement confirmed Samson is a legal U.S. resident who immigrated from Sudan in 1996.
Comment: Some interesting details on the killers from locals: The couple apparently hunted for victims on dating sites before drugging, butchering and eating them. Police fear the wife may have fed human flesh to student pilots at the Krasnodar military academy when she worked there as a nurse. They stored flesh in jars and cans. (See the link for blurred images, which are nonetheless very disturbing.) In other words, a total parasite, typical of psychopathy.