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On the morning of July 22, 2018, a sacrament meeting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fallon, Nevada, ended in sudden violence when 48-year-old John Kelly O’Connor walked into the chapel and fired a handgun at point‑blank range into the congregation. Charles Bert Miller, 61, a longtime community volunteer and volunteer firefighter who had previously owned an auto parts store and worked as a mechanic, was fatally wounded. Nearly 100 people were present; Miller’s visiting brother was hit in the leg and survived, and another worshipper was allegedly targeted by gunfire but was not killed.

O’Connor left the church, went home a block away, and surrendered after negotiators made contact; a handgun recovered at his residence matched the shell casings from the scene. Authorities charged O’Connor with first-degree murder, battery with a deadly weapon, and assault with a deadly weapon. Reports indicate the two men knew each other through the church but a clear motive was not established, and questions about O’Connor’s mental state affected the course of the proceedings.

Did anyone who attended that meeting or knew Charles notice anything unusual in the days before July 22, 2018?