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Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denisonformed, and this is the daily article for Friday,

March 19th, 2021. The title is, Georgia alleged shooter was active in a Southern Baptist church,

three responses to the sins of Christians. Delana Ashley Watt and her husband were on a date

last Tuesday and decided to get a massage.

They went for the first time to Young's Asian massage parlor near Woodstock, a town north of Atlanta.

When a gunman attacked the parlor, Delana and three others were murdered.

Her mother later told reporters, I'm lost, I'm confused, I'm hurt, I'm numb.

Two other Atlanta area massage parlors were attacked as well. Eight people died in all.

Authorities charged Robert Aaron Long in the worst mass shooting in the United States in almost two years.

The story is tragic on so many levels.

Six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent.

The suspect told investigators that he targeted the businesses because he blamed them

for, quote, providing an outlet for his addiction to sex.

Here's the part of the story that I'm being asked about.

According to his youth pastor, the suspect

was active in a Southern Baptist congregation. Brett Cottrell, who led the youth ministry at

Crab Apple First Baptist Church in Milton, Georgia from 2008 to 2017, told the Washington Post that Longstacked

chairs and cleaned floors as a teenager. Cotrell added

that Long's father was considered an important lay leader in the church. The family attended

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