... at first glance. But can we all agree that there is something inexplicably funny about the juxtaposition of church, doughnuts, handguns and abortion? There's an HBO show buried in there somewhere, trust me.
WICHITA, Kan. — Dr. George R. Tiller was standing beside a refreshment table inside his church, discussing his fondness for doughnuts, when a man walked up, pressed a gun against the doctor’s head and fired, a fellow church member recalled on Tuesday.
“I wasn’t sure if it was a cap gun or what,” Gary Hoepner, the church member, testified in a hearing here that offered the first significant details of what happened on May 31, the day that Dr. Tiller, one of the nation’s only doctors to perform late-term abortions, was killed.
“And then George fell,” said Mr. Hoepner, who testified he had been standing within touching distance of Dr. Tiller in the church foyer and who, like Dr. Tiller, had been serving as an usher that Sunday morning. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” added Mr. Hoepner, a member of the church, Reformation Lutheran, he said, for 52 years.
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