Opinion ID: 2978315
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Heading: February 26, 2006 attack

Text: At approximately 10:55 a.m. on February 26, 2006, Collins returned to Zion Church armed with a sawed-off shotgun and sat in the top row of the balcony. Rosetta and other members of the Williams family also sat in the balcony, but neither Jamika nor Culp was present. Witnesses testified that Collins and Rosetta engaged in a heated exchange, and Collins exposed the shotgun from underneath his coat and began to fire. Rosetta died from two gunshot wounds to her chest, and Edwards was struck in her left hand, resulting in the loss of her pinky finger. Collins escaped, and after a failed car-jacking, he died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Jamika later testified that Collins’s brother, Denzel Collins, called her and threatened both Jamika and her family three times before the shooting, and that on February 2, 2006, she informed him that she had filed a domestic violence report against his brother. She also testified that her family was concerned that Collins might harm them as well, but that based on Jamika and Culp’s interaction with Sergeant Cooper, she and her family mistakenly thought that Collins was in jail.