update:  VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Worship services are set to resume at the Alabama church where a gunman opened fire and killed three senior citizens at a potluck dinner recently. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church announced church members would be gathering Sunday morning to worship after what it called the “unfathomable loss and grief” of Thursday’s shooting. A man and two woman — all elderly church members — were killed in the gunfire. One survivor, Susan Sallin, told ABC 33/40 the group was having a happy dinner gathering when shots rang out. Seventy-year-old Robert Findlay Smith was detained and is charged with capital murder in the deaths. Police haven’t disclosed a motive for the attack.

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VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama say a gunman opened fired on a small group meeting at a suburban church, killing two people and injuring a third before being taken into custody. The attack happened Thursday evening at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills. Police Capt. Shane Ware declined to identify the suspect or the victims, or provide further details on the attack. The church’s website listed a “Boomers Potluck” for Thursday night. The violence comes a month after a man opened fire on Taiwanese parishioners at a church in Southern California, killing one person and wounding five.