Woman Narrowly Missed Tennessee Church Shooting "God took care of me ... I would have been right there"

Mark Ellis : Sep 27, 2017
God Reports

The pew where Gloria sits would have placed her in the path of the shooter.

[God Reports] Gloria Riches, 85, never misses a Sunday at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee. But on the morning when a Sudanese immigrant shot seven people and killed one woman, Gloria was uncharacteristically absent. (Photo: Burnette Chapel congregants after the shooting/via God Reports)

"I haven't missed a Sunday in six months," Gloria says. "But I did not feel well."

The pew where Gloria sits would have placed her in the path of the shooter. "God took care of me yesterday," she says. "I would have been right there." (Photo: Robert Caleb Engle, the usher who stopped the shooting/ via God Reports)

She got an urgent phone call at 11:15 Sunday morning from a close friend who had just witnessed the first woman shot outside the church. "She was hysterical; as she was getting in her car, she saw someone fall in front"...

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