Jury finds Emanuel Samson guilty of first-degree murder in Tennessee church shooting
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A jury on Friday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in a shooting at a Nashville church two years ago that left a woman dead and seven wounded.
Congregants of the multicultural Burnette Chapel Church of Christ testified during the four-day trial about the hail of bullets and the bloody scene that unfolded in front of them just after their Sunday worship service concluded. Some had the gunshot wounds to show for it.Burnette's minister, Joey Spann, remembered Samson as a different man years ago when he once was a member of Spann's church, well before the shooting.
"Melanie touched and left an impression on everyone she met," Crow's sister, Bridget Polson, testified."She had a big heart, a beautiful smile, and an uplifting soul." Samson also said he couldn't remember writing the note that cited white supremacist Dylann Roof's massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. The note, found in his car outside the church, included a reference to the red, black, and green Pan-African flag, sometimes called RBG. Additionally, prosecutors said Samson swung his gun by two African American churchgoers during the shooting, skipping over them.
The judge had limited what could be said in front of jurors about Samson's mental illnesses. Defense attorney Jennifer Lynn Thompson said the case was deemed not to meet the criteria for an insanity defense.
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