DALLAS (KRLD) - Dozens of people held a candlelight vigil outside West Freeway Church of Christ Monday evening to show support for the two people killed at the church Sunday morning. The church in White Settlement held a private service for members inside.
Ministers from several other churches set up the vigil, and supporters stood in the grass in front of West Freeway Church of Christ holding candles and singing hymns.
"It's our duty to support one another," one woman said.
Another said she knew one of the men who was killed, Tony Wallace.
"He was a rock in his family," she said, "I feel for his kids and his wife and his little grandkids."
After the service inside, West Freeway Church of Christ's senior minister came out and talked to the crowd.
"I lost a dear friend. I lost two great men, friends, men I consider putting above myself. They did the same for me," Britt Farmer said. "We must continue to stay bold when others do not because in the Garden of Eden, that perfect world, there was a snake. There was evil."
Farmer told the crowd Wallace and Richard White died saving lives. He said White was his best friend.
"We know God is with us, and He went before us in an act of violence himself," he said. "We will not give up nor expect us to be silent, not until He has called us home."
Monday afternoon, police identified the gunman as Keith Kinnunen, 43. Kinnunen had a criminal history that included arrests for theft, assault and possession of an illegal weapon in Texas. He also had arrests of illegal weapon possession in Oklahoma and New Jersey.
A judge in Oklahoma had granted his ex-wife a protective order in 2012.
White Settlement police, the Texas Department of Public Safety and FBI have all been investigating. They have not identified a motive.