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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Hailey Branson-Potts, Hannah Fry and Matthew Ormseth

‘Evil was in that church’: A stranger lurking, shots fired, then heroes rise in Laguna Woods

LOS ANGELES — Behind the pulpit of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, Pastor Billy Chang was in his element.

He had spent two decades pastoring the Laguna Woods congregation before moving to Taiwan two years ago. And on Sunday morning, he was back — joyfully so — as a guest preacher reading the word of God once again in a place that felt like home.

Chang, 67, knew almost all the faces in the pews. They were mostly elderly, mostly Taiwanese. They were like family.

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