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February 19, 2020 at 5:22 am
[…] All this in response to 14 mass shootings (4 or more killed) at faith-based properties since 1963, with a rise in them since 1999. At least 623 people killed, according to this report.

Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas
2001 Greater Oak Missionary Baptist Church in Hopkinsville, Kentucky
2002 Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Lynbrook, New York
2003 Turner Monumental AME Church in Kirkwood, Georgia
2005 Living Church of God in Brookfield, Wisconsin
2005 World Changers Church in College Park, Georgia
2006 Zion Hope Missionary Baptist in Detroit, Michigan
2006 Ministry of Jesus Christ Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2007 First Presbyterian Church in Moscow, Idaho
2007 First Congregational Church in Neosho, Missouri
2007 New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado
2008 First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois
2009 Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas
2012 World Changers Church in College Park, Georgia
2015 Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina
2017 Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee
2017 First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas
2017 St. Alphonsus Church in Fresno, Texas
2019 West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas
In addition to these incidents at Christian churches, fatal shootings have happened at other religious sites, including at a Jewish synagogue, a Benedictine monastery, a Sikh temple, and an Amish school.

Deadly incidents are on the rise at churches, says Carl Chinn, a church security expert. According to his research, there had never been a mass murder (four or more killed) associated with a faith-based property before 1963. Since then, there have been 14 such incidents.

As of 2018, Chinn identified 623 people having been killed in deadly force incidents since 1999 at faith-based properties, including churches.

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After three fatal church shootings in 2017, none occurred in 2018 and 2019 until a gunman opened fire at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas on Dec. 29 last year.

Since the Columbine school shooting on April 20, 1999, there have been 19 fatal church shootings. The deadliest was the 2017 shooting at First Baptist Sutherland Springs in Texas, with 26 deaths including an unborn child.

The most church shootings, as well as the most recent (West Freeway Church of Christ) and most deadly (First Baptist Church Sutherland Springs) have taken place in Texas. Four church shootings have happened in Texas, while Georgia has had three.

World Changers Church in College Park, Georgia, has been the site of two incidents.

Here are the locations of all the fatal church shootings since Columbine.