By NORMAN GOMLAK and ALEX DOMINGUEZ
*According to police, the man suspected in a fatal shooting at Creflo Dollar’s megachurch is a former church employee.

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — A volunteer leading a prayer service at a Georgia megachurch was shot and killed Wednesday morning, and authorities were searching for a former church employee suspected in the shooting.

The shots were fired just before 10 a.m. inside a chapel on the campus of World Changers Church International, which says it has 30,000 followers and is located in College Park, a suburb south of Atlanta.

“He walked in calmly, opened fire, and left as calmly,” Fulton County Police Cpl. Kay Lester said.

About 20 to 25 people were gathered in the chapel when the shooting happened. No other people were wounded and the gunman fled in a black Subaru station wagon with tinted windows that was later spotted by police at a mall in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood.

Creflo Dollar didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press, but he preached Wednesday evening at a Bible study in the campus’s larger World Dome sanctuary. He repeated the importance of having faith in God even when bad things happen and rejecting fear and doubt.

“We pray for this family,” he said, referring to McDowell. “We pray for both families and then we pray for every family that’s in here tonight.”
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