Stress as a photojournalist in St. Louis? Perhaps last week at the church shooting in Maryville. | PICTURES | STLtoday

Last Sunday was one of those days. A simple game of shooting baskets with my son Sam was interrupted by the telephone. Wearing the same clothes I slept in, I grabbed cameras and headed northeast some 35 miles to join fellow staffer John White at the scene of the church shooting at First Baptist Church at Maryville, where the pastor had been shot dead while preaching his morning sermon.

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