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Woman killed outside church
Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, March 12, 2007
With a Bible in her hands, a 40-year-old North Bay woman was gunned
down in the parking lot of Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland just
before the 8 a.m. service Sunday.
Tanya McCall was shot several times and died on a rocky slope adjacent
to the East Oakland church's central lot, police said.
The lot was filling with parishioners' cars as the gunman and McCall
began fighting, police said witnesses told them.
The man apparently pulled a gun from his waistband and fired as McCall
tried to run. After the shooting, parishioners rushed to McCall's
side, praying over her as paramedics arrived from a fire station
adjacent to the church on 66th Avenue.
Homicide Sgt. Tony Jones said police had some strong leads but
declined to elaborate.
"She's walking into church carrying her Bible, and she is gunned
down," he said. "That's pretty sad."
A few hours after the attack, McCall's father, Willis Hill, stood
outside church, his face solemn and determined. McCall's mother stood
silently nearby. Hill had driven from Tracy to Oakland as soon as he
received word from police that his daughter had died. Hill said his
daughter was separated from her husband and had sought, as recently as
last week, a restraining order against him.
Vernon Sampson, who said he was the victim's uncle, said his niece was
a sweet girl and hardworking.
"Everybody says that, but she really was," he added.
She worked at the California State Automobile Association office in
Berkeley while also holding a part-time job as a real estate agent for
Prudential California Realty in El Sobrante.
The manager of her Prudential office, Gerald Pippin, broke down in
tears when he learned of McCall's death Sunday afternoon, recalling
that she was a "very sweet person, a very professional lady."
"She was very professional at everything she did," Pippin said. "She
was more than an agent to me. She was a friend."
For Sunday's second service, at 11 a.m., families, couples and groups
of friends filed into the 7,000-member church near the Oakland
Coliseum. The chaos that had surrounded the 8 a.m. service had abated,
and few parishioners glanced toward the police investigators working
in the parking lot.
During the service, the church's pastor, Bishop Bob Jackson, asked the
congregation to pray for the killer.
"Give him a mind to give himself up and repent for his sins," he said
to loud applause.
Later, sitting in a back office as the choir sang a last song, the
pastor said he was devastated at first. Anger followed. The first
question to God, said Jackson, was, "Why?" He said McCall joined Acts
Full Gospel two years ago and attended regularly.
He has campaigned for years against violence in Oakland. More
recently, the pastor has taken up the cause of illegal guns, going so
far as to purchase illegal weapons off the street to turn over to
police.
This wasn't the first time someone was killed by a gun at the church,
Jackson said.
About 10 years ago, also on a Sunday, a man was shot at the back
gate.
"Ten years later, the Lord is reminding us we're still at war,"
Jackson said.
Chronicle staff writers Henry K. Lee and Jim Herron Zamora contributed
to this report. E-mail Jill Tucker at jtu...@sfchronicle.com.
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> Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
As Lou Reed said in his brilliant (to me) song "Busload of Faith"...
"Don't depend on any churches, unless there's real estate you want to buy."
Well it turns out this appears to be all about real estate. The estranged
husband is accused of doing it. Apparently they were fighting over the
couple's six homes. She had offered him two of them in exchange for not
having to pay him spousal support. Instead it appears he has arranged for
free state housing for the rest of his life.
BS
SF, CA
RMJon23
Yea, I followed the story too. But I just like how the couple's story
climaxed. Sometimes a story has a lot in common with a business:
location, location, location. The denouement? She wit Jayzus now.
Hubby gets to live in a Gated Community. Too bad it'll probably be
crowded where he's going. From what I understand the elbow room will
not be commensurate with the six-home luxurious "lifestyle" (possibly
the most grating word coined in the 20th c, for my tastes) he'd grown
accustomed to.
It seems like it wd be so much more humane to pardon all of the
inmates who reside in the various Gated Communities of California
solely due to nonviolent drug "offenses." That's about 40%, give or
take a few, according to my sources.
FORTY FUCKING PERCENT!
Fer crissakes, let them out and let Mr. After I Shot Her In The Church
Parking Lot I Pumped Two Bullets Into Her Head At Pointblank Range
'Cuz The Two House Offer Was Rilin' Me Some have some room to roam.
Sure, the guy's a killer. (Oops; Aristotelian "essence" there: He
seems highly likely to have committed a premeditated murder one day,
which is enough under our legal system to get you at least three years
in the clink.) But those places are rough. Let's be humane and give
the guy - and his murderous brethren - some room to stretch out.
Am I missing something here?
Oh yea: Impeach the Chimp!
Impound Cheney!
Gonzalez to Gitmo!
Save the Ostriches!
Praise BOB!
Free Dope For All!
Orgasms For All! Even Cheney!