The victim of a shooting at a Double Springs Church two weeks ago has died.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department released a statement Monday morning, February 10, indicating that Etta Medley, 61, passed away from injuries sustained last Sunday, February 2, when her estranged brother-in-law entered the Double Springs Community Church and shot Medley in the abdomen.

On February 2, the sheriff’s department responded to the church in reference to one person inside the church being shot and a gunman who was still in the building.

The Putnam County S.W.A.T. team entered the building where they found Medley and rushed her to Cookeville Regional Medical Center where she underwent emergency surgery.

Medley was then transferred to Vanderbilt Medical Center where she died around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, February 9.

The shooter, Tommy Meadows, 64, of Bloomington Springs, had reportedly come to the church with a firearm looking for his estranged wife, Medley’s sister. Meadows allegedly made threats to kill his wife and an altercation ensued, resulting in Medley’s injuries.

The wife managed to escape the building and Meadows apparently turned the gun on himself. S.W.A.T. team members found Meadows deceased in the church basement. Medley and her sister were the only two people in the building at the time Meadows arrived. Officials said the two were preparing for that day’s church services. Friends described Medley as a well-liked, Christian woman who will be greatly missed.

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Two people have been indicted for the Sunday, February 9 murder of Jill Adcock Farley, 41, of Cookeville.

Brian Anthony Logan, also known as Allyn Marcial Hodges, Jr., and Miranda Michele Brown, of Sparta, were indicted on charges of first degree murder, felony murder and aggravated robbery by the White County Grand Jury, which met in special session Wednesday, February 12.

On Sunday, Farley had gone to the store with another individual and was parked outside. Her companion went into the store and was shopping when an altercation ensued inside the vehicle and Farley was struck in the head.

She was taken to Cookeville Regional Medical Center where she died from her injuries.

According to the indictments for Logan and Brown, the two did “unlawfully, intentionally and with premeditation kill Jill Farley, constituting the offense of first degree murder,” did “unlawfully and knowingly inflict fatal injuries upon Jill Farley during an attempted perpetration of aggravated robbery and said injuries did cause the death of (Farley), constituting the offense of felony murder,” and “did take from the person of (Farley) certain personal property by violence.”

Through a joint investigation by the White County Sheriff’s Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the District Attorney’s office and the Sparta City Police, the suspects were apprehended a few hours later and have been held in custody since.

Authorities said they could not reveal the weapon used to strike Farley or what the two took from her, but did say that one of the suspects did know Farley previously.