The 39-year-old man, who wasn’t immediately identified, started shooting inside the sanctuary of The Church in Sacramento just before 5 p.m. Monday.
during a supervised visit at a California church before killing himself, authorities said.
The man, who was estranged from his daughters’ mother, gunned down the young girls – ages 9, 10, and 13 – and a male chaperone, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. The deranged gunman used an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle in the attack,“[It’s] obviously [beyond] anyone’s rational comprehension,” Sheriff Scott Jones told reporters at a news conference late Monday. “You just don’t know what people are capable of.”JOHN G.
The five victims, who were pronounced dead at the scene, were not immediately identified. A county spokeswoman told The Post she had no additional information to immediately provide early Tuesday.Neighbors look on as the investigation unfolds.“This hurts so bad. Children are innocent, they didn’t have a chance at life,” one resident said., saying the church was a place of refuge for parishioners.
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