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The shooting
rattled the congregation of Oasis Tabernacle Church in east
Selma but was not believed to be racially motivated, said Dallas
County District Attorney Michael Jackson.
"This was a domestic violence situation," Jackson said. "It's
just a sad situation when people have to be on guard in their
church."
In June, a black pastor and eight others were gunned down at a
historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white
gunman who authorities allege targeted them because of their
race.
The pastor in Sunday's shooting is white and the alleged gunman,
James Minter, his girlfriend and the infant are black, Jackson
said.
The prosecutor said Minter and his girlfriend had been having
problems before Minter went into the church Sunday morning and
began shooting. The pastor was shot as he intervened and tried
to wrestle away Minter's gun, Jackson said.
Jackson said the mother was in critical condition after being
shot in the face. He did not know the conditions of the pastor
and infant.
Minter was jailed without bail on three counts of attempted
murder, Jackson said.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Editing by
Eric Beech)
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