Okay...but, breaking in ups the ante for SP. And he/they could have spoken to her when she was exiting her car,just before they shot her. Buying a gun in Texas, not so hard. jmo. Not breaking in would have made for a swifter, surer exit. It's so strange, the fact that the perp(s) were in the church. jmo
IMO, no so strange. May have wanted to corner her. Remove the chance of her getting away. We know the suspect walks funny, might have thought wouldn't of had much chance of catching her if she ran. There are neumerous things about this case that lead me to believe it was personal. In the contect of the act, inside was more intimate. without listing them all, shooting her might not have brought about the same satisfaction as how the suspect killed her. In many cases it would have been easier to just shoot someone, yet we still have a lot of murders by other means.