Shooting at Laguna Hills church kills one, wounds five

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Multiple people have been injured following a shooting on Sunday at a church in the Laguna Hills area of Orange County, according to authorities.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office shared that the department received a call of a shooting inside Geneva Presbyterian Church at around 1:26 p.m.

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Deputies were dispatched to the scene, where they found four critically wounded victims, the office shared. A fifth person was wounded but only suffered minor injuries.

Another victim was found fatally wounded and declared dead at the scene, according to the sheriff’s office.

All the victims were adults.

A suspect at the scene of the shooting has been taken into custody by deputies and a weapon has been recovered, the sheriff’s office reported.

There are no further details available at this time.

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