COOL RIDGE, W. Va. July 9 2018 West Virginia police arrested a Georgia man they said pulled a knife on a missionary group in church after he was asked to silence his cellphone. According to The Register-Herald in Beckley, a criminal complaint shows 26-year-old Bernard B. Edmond of Decatur, Georgia, is charged in Wednesday’s incident at […]
CHICAGO IL March 31 2018 A 57-year-old security guard and an armed robber were both wounded in shootout in a West Garfield Park church Wednesday night, Chicago police said. Police said the security guard was sitting inside the Maypole Avenue Church of Christ in 4400-block of West Maypole just after 8 p.m. when a 25-year-old man […]
CLIFTON, Tenn. Feb 26 2018- Tennessee police acting on a tip last weekend thwarted a correction officer’s apparent plan to “shoot up” the church his estranged wife attended, officials said. Daniel Vernon Toler, 35, of Huron, is jailed at the Wayne County Jail on weapons charges, according to Fox 17 News in Nashville. Toler is a […]
Las Vegas NV Nov 11 2017 Las Vegas police say a local pastor tested his luck one too many times at an off-Strip casino, according to a report from ktnv.com. Late last month, police arrested Gregory Bolusan at Penn National Gaming’s M Resort casino for attempting to rob the property of about $33,000. Police say […]
Sutherland Springs TX Nov 6 2017 The Air Force airman believed to be behind Sunday’s mass shooting in Texas was a registered security guard who worked at a nearby water park and had ties to the church he targeted through family members, a report says. Devin Kelley, 26, was not a member of the First Baptist […]
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tex. Nov 6 2017 — A gunman walked into a small Baptist church in rural Texas on Sunday and opened fire, killing at least 25 people and turning a tiny town east of San Antonio into the scene of the country’s most recent mass horror. Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas confirmed the death toll, […]
Miami FL Oct 24 2017 A Miami man pleaded guilty to threatening to attack a mosque and shoot its members, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Gerald Wallace, 35, admitted to to one count of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs after “leaving a hate-filled and profanity laden message against Islam, the prophet Mohammed, and […]
Nashville TN Sept 27 2017 The 22-year-old church usher heralded as a hero after he confronted a masked gunman who killed a woman in a parking lot before opening fire at a Tennessee parish on Sunday quietly attended a candlelight vigil near his church Monday evening. Police said Robert Engle, an usher at the Burnette Chapel […]
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Sept 27 2017 An Alabama pastor was arrested last week following accusations that he refused to notify authorities when he learned that a sheriff’s deputy was sexually abusing a child. Michael James Walker, 51, of Huntsville, is charged with a violation of the mandatory reporting laws, according to Huntsville police officials. As a […]
HAWTHORNE CA Sept 26 2017 Three teens were stabbed Saturday evening outside a church fair in Hawthorne. A spokesperson for Hawthorne police told CBS2 a fight broke out around 8:30 p.m. just outside St. Joseph Catholic Church in the 11800 block of Hawthorne Boulevard, where a fair was taking place. One teen was found wounded just […]