A Catholic church in Louisiana says they are thankful after some members were able to stop a teenager armed with a rifle from entering a church service filled with children.
Members at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville alerted police last Saturday morning that a 16-year-old wearing all black and armed with a rifle was trying to enter the building through the back door.
Around 60 children were inside the church waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said.
Abbeville Police Chief Mike Hardy said in a statement on Facebook that the suspect was “confronted by parishioners and escorted outside.”
Livestreamed video footage captures the moment the service was interrupted and members of the church began to pray.
Here’s the video — 16 year old wearing all black entered a Catholic Church with a rifle, intending to massacre children and families during a First Holy Communion ceremony in Louisiana.
He was stopped by parishioners.
Disturbance begins at 1:55.pic.twitter.com/IosIwzAkNw
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Over audible panic and screams, one minister tells the congregation, “Guys, just get a hold of your children, go slowly. We did apprehend a child, he is in custody.”
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