A gunman who opened fire and killed two people at a Kentucky Kroger’s earlier this week tried to get inside a predominantly black church, police said Thursday.
Gregory Bush, a 51-year-old white man with a history of violence and mental illness, “appeared to try to gain access” to First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown before shooting and killing two African-Americans at the grocery store, police chief Sam Rogers said.
Authorities received a tip from a city of Jeffersontown employee who said he thought he saw Bush outside the church. Video confirmed Bush’s presence around the church, which is headed by a black pastor and has a large African-American membership, Rogers said.