June 22, 1980

First Baptist, Daingerfield, Texas

Hymns rung throughout the sanctuary as the congregation was  listening to the choir. Alvin Lee King III, a former high school math teacher, pushed his way through the huge wooden doors. He stood at the back of the church in two flak jackets and an army helmet. One hand held an AR-15 rifle, and the other held a M-1 rifle, both with bayonets attached. He interrupted the choir, screaming,“This is war!”

He then fired in the sanctuary. People fell to the ground below the pews, hiding from the bullets that bounced off of the yellow brick walls. 

That day he killed five people and injured 10 others.

A few miles away, a young Donald sat in the car with his family on the way back home to Daingerfield, upset about having missed church service that morning.