Knoxville bishop responds to shooting
Friday, Apr. 16, 2021
By Catholic News Service
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville offered prayers for a teenager who was killed and an injured police officer involved in a school shooting. The bishop also expressed concern in a statement April 12 following the incident for “the series of tragic events” that have resulted in the deaths of four other teens since Jan. 27 who were former or current students at the Knoxville public school as well as concern for mass shootings in several cities nationwide in recent weeks. Such incidents, he said, “demonstrate that violence in our society remains a serious, almost daily occurrence and that it claims victims in many different ways.”
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PICTURED: Tennessee school resource officer who was shot in the leg by Knoxville high school student before being shot dead by cops
Knoxville Police Officer Adam Willson is recovering in hospital after he was shot in the leg during the incident at Austin-East Magnet High School on Monday
Willson is a 20-year police veteran currently working as the resource officer
The gunman student, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene after being shot by an officer
No one else was injured in the shooting
The deadly incident erupted when police first received reports of a student with a gun and found him holed up in a bathroom
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After Knoxville shootings, a call to find solutions to violence
Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tenn., is seen at the Vatican Dec. 3, 2019. Bishop Stika offered prayers April 13, 2021, after a shooting the day before at a Knoxville public school in his diocese, but he also urged U.S. communities to come together to find positive solutions to this ongoing problem in our country. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tenn., is seen at the Vatican Dec. 3, 2019. Bishop Stika offered prayers April 13, 2021, after a shooting the day before at a Knoxville public school in his diocese, but he also urged U.S. communities to come together “to find positive solutions to this ongoing problem in our country.” (CNS photo/Vatican Media)