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Church shootings in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, have left ten injured and at least two people dead this weekend. A man walked into a Knoxville, Tennessee, church and opened fire Sunday, July 27, 2008, injuring 7 people, various local media have reported. The incident took place at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church at 10:15 a.m. Church members said children from the congregation's summer theater workshop were performing a musical when the shooting occurred. A children's production of "Annie" was taking place at the time of the shooting. Steve Drevik, a church member, described the shooter as a man with long blond hair, who appeared to be in his 40s. He said he walked into the sanctuary and opened fire with a shotgun, shooting indiscriminately. No children are believed to have been hit by the gunfire. Seven people were transported to an area hospital. The extent of their injuries is unknown. The alleged shooter is in custody. Update: A ...

Three people were wounded when a gunman opened fire at a Phoenix, Arizona, community college on Thursday afternoon, July 24, 2008. Police speculate that the shooting stems from a longtime dispute between the suspect and a student. Investigators say the suspect, who is a former student, shot three people in a computer room at South Mountain Community College. One of the victims was seriously injured and remains in critical condition on Friday. Police arrested Rodney Smith, 22, nearby after he flew the scene to a nearby home. Witnesses say the suspect and student had a verbal confrontation shortly before the shooting. Two people were struck by stray bullets and are in stable condition at Maricopa Medical Center. The third victim, who reportedly was the suspect's target, suffered a shot to the leg and is listed in critical condition.

There appears to be another copycat murder due to the motion picture, Natural Born Killers . Eric Tavulares was fascinated with the movie Natural Born Killers . He told police he has seen it 10 or 20 times. He told police, according to a complaint filed Monday, July 21, 2008, that he had been watching it Friday night, July 18, the night he strangled his childhood sweetheart, 18-year-old Lauren Aljubouri. According to the complaint: Tavulares, also 18, told police he has had known Aljubouri since the second grade and that they had been dating on and off since the sixth grade. Aljubouri, who graduated in January from Arrowhead High School in Waukesha County, got home around 10:45 p.m. Friday. She and Tavulares lived in an apartment in the 2400 block of N. Frederick Ave., not far from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where Aljubouri planned to study graphic design. Tavulares planned to study fire science at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Tavulares told police they began watchi...

There is something sinister happening in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Women soldiers are being killed. Young women are being stalked. There is a copycat about. In that town's Fairfield Inn, in the room where Spc. Megan Lynn Touma’s body was discovered June 21, 2008, a killer watched. He went purposefully about his killing in that North Carolina hotel room, and then scrawled the "Zodiac Symbol," like that of the infamous Zodiac Killer, upon the room's mirror, according to local police. He is calling himself, by his actions and his symbol, Zodiac. The sign he used to inscribe the letter he sent to the press reminds us, of course, of the Zodiac of the 1960s. The choice of the date, the Summer Solstice, may be part of his plan for attention. Perhaps even the location, Fayetteville, was picked on purpose. The name game. The copycat effect. You've read of both of them here. Below is the note. More later.