On September 24, 2017, Melanie Crow was attending church when a gunman in a ski mask arrived and shot her in the face. Emanuel Samson, a former member of the church, set a goal to kill 10 white churchgoers; in the end he injured 8 people, as well as accidentally shooting himself in a scuffle with one of his victims. Melanie, a mother of two, was the only fatality.