Nashville church shooting suspect indicted on 43 counts

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting a woman and wounding six people at a Middle Tennessee church in September faces a 43-count indictment, including first-degree murder, attempted murder and felony civil rights intimidation charges.

Friday’s grand jury indictment in Davidson County charges 26-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson in the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ shooting in Nashville. He’s been held without bond since September.

An arrest affidavit from September says Samson waived his rights and told police he arrived armed and fired at Burnette.

In October, Nashville Police Detective Steve Jolley testified that a note in Samson’s car referred to a white supremacist’s 2015 massacre at a South Carolina black church. Jolley said Samson also told him he didn’t give much thought to race or religion, and heard voices and had visions.