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Police take items from suspect's home

MARYVILLE, Ill., March 8 (UPI) -- Police Sunday removed gun cases and a computer from the Troy, Ill., home of a man suspected of shooting a pastor, officials said.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Terry Joe Sedlacek, 27, is a suspect in the shooting death Sunday morning of Pastor Fred Winters at the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Ill.

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Sedlacek spoke with Winters and then opened fire with a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol, investigators said. The first shot hit a Bible, Larry Trent, director of the Illinois State Police, said, while one of three more shots hit Winters in the chest.

Nobody else was shot, the Post-Dispatch reported.

Members of the congregation jumped the gunman and some were slashed with a knife that also wounded the shooter. One church member was treated and released, while another was hospitalized.

Trent called their actions "heroic."

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