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   Texas church shooter described by ex-wiv   
   15 Feb 21 16:54:44   
   
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   From: levi@dont-email.me   
      
   "We knew he was crazy, but not like this," gunman Thomas   
   Kinnunen's ex-wife said in reaction to the church shooting that   
   left two congregants dead.   
      
   Two ex-wives of the man who opened fire at a Texas church on   
   Sunday, killing two men, described him as "crazy" and "violent."   
      
   "We knew he was crazy, but not like this," said Angela Holloway,   
   who was married to the gunman Keith Thomas Kinnunen for eight   
   years before they divorced in 2010. "I don't wish this on   
   anybody. I feel sorry for the victims. I really do."   
      
   "Mentally, I know he was mentally ill," she told NBC Dallas-Fort   
   Worth in an interview Monday. Holloway said she last spoke with   
   Kinnunen, who had an extensive criminal record spanning multiple   
   states, about three years ago. "He just wasn't in his right mind.   
      
   "I didn't know how to go about talking to him about it,"   
   Holloway said, adding that he suffered from a drug habit.   
      
   "He's gone," Holloway said. "There's nothing I can do about it,   
   but I'm glad it got stopped."   
      
   Kinnunen fatally shot deacon Anton “Tony” Wallace, 64, and   
   church security team member Richard White, 67, at West Freeway   
   Church of Christ, in the town of White Settlement outside of   
   Fort Worth. He was shot dead by another church security team   
   member, Jack Wilson. The entire incident lasted about six   
   seconds.   
      
   The church had previously provided Kinnunen, 43, with food on   
   multiple occasions, but when he asked for money he wasn't given   
   any, according to Britt Farmer, a senior minister for the   
   congregation.   
      
   But on Sunday, he wore a wig and fake beard and wasn't   
   recognized. Some church members were spooked by the strange-   
   looking man, while Wallace's daughter said she intended to   
   welcome the person she thought was a visitor.   
      
   Matthew DeSarno, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Dallas   
   field office, said Kinnunen was "relatively transient," but had   
   roots in the area.   
      
   After his divorce from Holloway, he tried to reconnect with his   
   first wife, Cindy Glasgow-Voegel, who subsequently filed a   
   protective order against him in Grady County, Oklahoma, in 2012,   
   NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported.   
      
   In a statement at the time, she wrote, "Keith is a violent,   
   paranoid person with a long line of assault and batteries with   
   and without firearms. He is a religious fanatic, says he's   
   battling a demon ... He is not nice to anyone."   
      
   She wrote that Kinnunen had showed up without notice in 2011,   
   asking to see his teenage son, who was "terrified of him."   
      
   According to an arrest affidavit, the son told police in 2011   
   that he was with Kinnunen when he set a cotton field on fire   
   using lamp oil, tampons and a lighter. The son also said   
   Kinnunen liked to play "fire football," in which he would soak   
   the ball in flammable liquid, light it on fire and toss it back   
   and forth with the teen.   
      
   Kinnunen was also charged in Grady County, Oklahoma, with   
   aggravated assault and battery in 2011.   
      
   In Tarrant County, Texas, he had been charged with aggravated   
   assault with a deadly weapon in 2009 and theft of property in   
   2013. He was also arrested in 2009 and 2015 in River Oaks.   
      
   More recently, he was arrested in 2016 for possession of an   
   illegal weapon in Linden, New Jersey, according to NBC New York.   
      
   The FBI is working to identify Kinnunen's motive. Investigators   
   began searching his home after the shooting Sunday.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-church-shooter-   
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