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Jane Pounds, 84, Bart Rainey, 84, Sharon Yeager, 75, as well as those who survived the gunfire will be honored.

Robert Findlay Smith entered his guilty plea Tuesday afternoon before Jefferson County Circuit Judge Kandice Pickett. The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office consulted with the family of the three victims before offering the plea to Smith earlier this month.

Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for Robert Findlay Smith, but the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office offered a plea deal in April after talking to the victims' families.

Robert Findlay Smith is charged with with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three people at a Vestavia Hills church potluck supper.

An Alabama man was awarded the nation's highest honor of the Carnegie Hero Medal for his heroic actions in last year's church shooting Monday.

A 79-year-old Alabama man has been named the recipient of a national heroism award after he stopped an active shooter who killed three people at a potluck dinner at a Vestavia Hills church last year.James W. “Jim” Musgrove will receive the Carnegie Medal for his actions at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on June 16, 2022.

[Episcopal News Service] On June 16, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, lost three parishioners in a deadly shooting that brought the

The three victims were 84-year-old Bart Rainey, of Irondale, 75-year-old Sharon Yeager, of Pelham, and 84-year-old Jane Pounds, of Hoover.

Editor's note: This story was updated July 8 at 4 p.m. EDT with action in the House of Bishops. [Episcopal News Service] At the end of its morning session

[Episcopal News Service] The three victims of a shooting on June 16 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, “modeled how to live in lo