CNN 20: Shooting in Texas Church, September 15, 1999
ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>JIM MORET, CNN ANCHOR: From Fort Worth, Texas today, so many difficult and seemingly unanswerable questions both for that community and the rest of the nation. A gunman opened fire at a church service for teenagers last night, killing eight people, including himself. Today police learned about the suspect and the weapons used in that attack. Our coverage begins with CNN's Jim Hill in Fort Worth.</s>JIM HILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the gunfire and chaos at the Wedgwood Baptist Church, an image is emerging of how police say 47-year-old Larry Ashbrook stormed a crowded prayer meeting of teenagers and adults. Authorities say Ashbrook used two semiautomatic handguns and a pipe bomb. After killing three adults inside the church entrance, he rushed into the prayer meeting of 150 people. Inside, he opened fire again, reloading several times and tossing the bomb. Police say he killed seven people before killing himself.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: What did he do? Describe what he did.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He put it to his head and he shot himself.</s>HILL: Wedgwood Baptist Church is in a middle-class community, a conservative congregation of about 1,000. The prayer meeting was supposed to be a time for teenagers to reflect on and pray over the troubles of the world. But Wednesday evening, the troubles of one man, Larry Ashbrook, came to them. Jim Hill, CNN, Fort Worth, Texas.