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2012

Ellicot City, MD

56-year-old transient, Douglas Franklin Jones, was told by the staff of St. Peter's Episcopal Church that his frequent partaking of the benevolence food pantry would need to be regulated to allow more for others. He became enraged, shooting and killing co-pastor Mary-Marguerite Kohn and church employee Brenda Brewington. Jones then killed himself in the woods where he lived behind the church.

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3

2012

Tacoma, WA

An unknown assailant(s) threw a makeshift firebomb made from a gas can through a window of the Pathways to Learning Day-Care Center attached to the C.O.G.I.C. Church. The day before, a van had plowed into the same facility with a rock set on the accelerator.

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2012

Bartlesville, OK

Shawn Kennedy was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after he attacked the Director of the Family Life Center with various objects in the Director’s office. Kennedy was upset that he was not receiving benevolence assistance in the way he wanted it.

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2012

St. Thomas, PA

18-year-old Jonathan Scott Crist agreed to meet an un-named victim for a drug deal in the parking lot of the St. Luke Lutheran Church. In an altercation that ensued, Crist stabbed the victim in the arm. Crist had planned to rob the victim of $35.00.

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2012

Aurora, CO

Following an argument with friends a few blocks away, 29-year-old Kiarron Parker raced his car across the parking lot of the New Destiny Christian Center just as Sunday services had ended. His car rammed another and came to a stop. As the pastor’s mother (67-year-old Josephine Echols) and others came to Parker’s aid, he pulled a gun and started shooting. Echols was hit 5 times and died. As people ran back into the church, Parker followed, but was killed as he entered the foyer by church member and off-duty police officer Antonio Milow.

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18

2012

Benton Harbor, MI

The Church of God in Christ owns the C.O.G.I.C. Village Apartments, and has an office on site to manage the apartments. A pipe bomb was detonated on the sill of that office during unoccupied times, shattering the window and sending deadly shrapnel across a wide area.

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11

2012

Salt Lake City, UT

18-year-old Chris Perry and his 16-year-old female accomplice were arrested for setting off a homemade bomb in an LDS Church parking lot. They also detonated one in a stairway of a local High School and two others in various places. They just wanted to see and hear the explosions from devices they concocted from internet recipes.

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10

2012

Tacoma, WA

As Ivan Zaytsev expressed anger in the lobby of the Slavic Christian Center on Tuesday evening, ushers brought Pastor Peter Sayenko (who had been doing marriage counseling for Zaytsev) to him. The pastor took him to his office to get the confrontation out of the crowd. When they got in the office, Zaytsev locked the door, punched the pastor in the face and stabbed him in the back before fleeing the scene. Sayneko will survive, and Zaytsev was arrested.

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2012

Indianapolis. IN

Angry over allegations he had been stealing from the First Christian Missionary Baptist Church, 19-year-old Calvin Griffin shot at but missed the 69-year-old pastor Damon Roach (also the shooter’s grandfather) as he was working in the church. Griffin was arrested a short time after the shooting.

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2012

Oakland, CA

Angry over a tuition reimbursement dispute, Oikos University (a small Christian ran university) student One Goh returned in anger with a .45. When he didn’t find the person he was looking for, he began shooting, randomly killing Tshering Bhutia, Grace Kim, Sonam Choedon, Katleen Ping, Doris Chibuko, Judith Seymour and Lydia Sim before he fled the scene. When he was done killing he left the scene and was arrested at another location.

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2012

Miami, FL

As funeral services were being held at the Funeraria Latina Emmanuel Funeral Home, an alleged Haitian gang pulled up and began firing into the crowd of mourners. Parterson Dubreus and Laurore Ornis were killed and 12 others were wounded in the mass shooting.

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2012

Liverpool Township, OH

In what appears to be a murder / suicide, Michael & Karen Wolfe were found dead of gunshots inside their residence at the Free Methodist Church Camp. The couple served as the church camp groundskeepers.

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2012

Pittsburgh, PA

17-year-old Deontay Smith was standing outside the Inner Cities Ministries visiting with friends as others were inside worshipping in the service. A man walked up to him and shot him multiple times in the head killing him in front of stunned witnesses. The shooter even repeatedly struck him multiple times after he fell in what looks to be a gang-related execution.

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25

2012

Boiling Springs, SC

Jesse Gates acted strange earlier in the Sunday AM service at the Southside Free Will Baptist Church. Strange enough that member Aaron Guyton carried his legal concealed weapon the rest of the day. Gates returned armed with a shotgun and a knife. He kicked open a side door and began to demand the pastor come down from the pulpit. Rev. Henry Guyton (Grandfather of Aaron) did come down, but it was to take the shotgun away as Aaron, Jesse Smith and Leland Powers (who had all intervened immediately) held Gates to the ground.

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18

2012

Las Vegas, NV

As a man was walking across the parking lot about 08:00 Sunday AM to go into services at the St. Joseph, Husband of Mary Church, two men in a car pulled beside him. They were asking for directions which he gave them. One of the men in the car, jumped out, grabbed the parishioner, pointed a gun in his face and threw him to the ground demanding his wallet. No arrests have yet been made.

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15

2012

Sacramento, CA

As a man was attending a church activity at the Trinity Presbyterian Church, a gun battle was going on between moving cars nearby. He was struck by a bullet and was found by arriving police in the parking lot. Though the bullet struck him in his face, he is expected to survive.

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6

2012

Jacksonville, FL

28-year-old Shane Schumerth had just been terminated from his position as a teacher at the Episcopal High School at 09:00 Tuesday AM. He returned about 1:35 PM with a guitar case and went to the school offices. He pulled a rifle out of the guitar case and killed 63-year-old Dale Regan, then himself. Regan was the head of the school where she had worked since 1978.

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1

2012

Omaha, NE

As middle school children were in the St. Paul Lutheran Church school gym, shots rang out from an unrelated gun attack in the parking lot. One bullet struck the gymnasium door, and a car in the parking lot was hit, but nobody in the church was injured.

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2012

Visalia, CA

Death threats against Reverend Carlos Serrano of The Catholic Church of Visalia were credible enough that the priest was relocated to an unpublished location prior to services on Sunday. Law enforcement officials confirmed the priest is under no other investigations, and he is the victim in this city where an LDS church leader was killed on 8/29/10

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2012

Carrollton, TX

Well known area businessman, 52-year-old Travis Henderson had been involved in a family disturbance at his home. His wife was concerned as he had left with a gun, and was not in a good state of mind so she called police. They found him in the parking lot of the Valley View Christian Church. When he pointed his weapon at the officers, they fired killing him.

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2012

Riverdale, GA

Jonathan Holland was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Heatherwood Baptist Church around 04:00 Saturday AM. He and others had just left a nearby nightclub, and gotten into an argument in the church parking lot where they had parked their cars. Spillover violence from the nightclub has been a problem at the church for a long time.

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11

2012

Tulsa, OK

Scary moments followed when a car thief stole a truck which had two small children in it. The 5-month-old baby was safely recovered in a residential neighborhood. The one-year-old was dropped off in the parking lot of the St. Francis Xavier Church. Fortunately she was soon discovered by church parishioners. Police felt they were dealing with a three hour window to find her before death on what may have been the coldest night of the winter.

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9

2012

Culpeper, VA

Mystery clouds a shooting in the parking lot of the Epiphany Catholic School at 10:00 Thursday morning. 54-year-old Patricia Cook had never had any encounter with police, and was a respected retired local professional. But she was reported as a suspicious person in the school parking lot, where she allegedly rolled up her window on a responding officer’s arm, whom she drug as she refused to stop. The officer shot and killed her in the scuffle.  

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6

2012

Cleveland, OH

Father Dean Dimon of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church and Father John Ojaimi from nearby St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church both confronted William Horning who had been working churches in the area by taking money without doing the work charged for. Horning became angry when confronted with his ruse (discovered to be a parole violation of prior convictions). They pinned him down as they were awaiting arrival of law-enforcement, but he hit Father John in the head and escaped. As Horning was fleeing the church, he purposely hit two arriving officers with his car as they identified themselves and tried to stop him. The injuries to the officers and the priest were not life-threatening.

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2012

Princeton, WV

30-year-old Jason Hicks was found shot to death in the parking lot of the Pentecostal Chapel of Praise. The gunshot was not self-inflicted, but no arrests have yet been made. The shooting occured around 7:30 PM on Friday night.

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2

2012

Rochester Hills, MI

50-year-old Jeff Murri, GM of Fox News affiliate WJBK, committed suicide in the parking lot of his family church -- St. Irenaeus Catholic Church on Thursday afternoon. Murri died of a single gunshot wound to his head.

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2

2012

Wisconsin Rapids, WI

A woman attempted to stab another woman as the two were attending St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church. 

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2

2012

Corpus Christi, TX

As a maintenance man for St. Bartholemew’s Episcopal Church was going to repair equipment on the building, he was assaulted by an unknown man who stabbed him with an unknown object in the attack. The wounds are non-life threatening. Police never found the assailant. The belief is that the attacker was homeless.

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1

2012

Springfield, MA

The body of 38-year-old Judy Ramirez was found at the base of stairs leading into the basement of the Progressive Community Chapel. The investigation determined homicide due to blunt force trauma. 30-year-old Ronald Ruell Jr. arrested and charged with her murder.

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2012

Nevada, MO

A small fire was ignited when an unidentified person threw a Molotov cocktail at the Sylvan Dale church.

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20

2012

Albany, GA

As the worship service began at the Albany Rescue Mission, Major Scott came in threatening other participants with a knife, disrobed and continued lunging at people with a knife. When police arrived, he had to be tazed in order to arrest him.

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20

2012

Akron, OH

3 men robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of the North Hills Community Baptist Church. Arrests were made on 16, 17 & 19-year-old robbers who struck at 8:00 PM on Friday night. Police tracked them in the snow to make the arrest 

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18

2012

Goose Creek, SC

As the choir of St. James United Methodist Church were rehearsing, a man walked in the unlocked door and started down the aisle towards them with a long gun (investigators are uncertain if it was a shotgun or rifle) yelling at them to get on the floor. He was loud, vulgar and overpowering as people tried to comply but some older folks could not physically meet his demands. He got away with cell phones, billfolds and purses.

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2012

Charleston, WV

Following a domestic dispute, 40-year-old Tommy Gene Ransbottom held a gun to his own head then fired it multiple times into the air. As police were responding he drove to the Rock Lake Presbyterian Church. As officers and family members pleaded with him in the church parking lot around 01:00 AM, he got out of his car and began walking towards officers refusing to lay his weapon down. He was shot and killed as police determined his actions were putting them in danger.

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2012

Salisbury, NC

By the time police arrived at the scene of a fight in the parking lot of the Milford Hills United Methodist Church on Tuesday evening, all suspects and victims had fled. 3 spent 9 mm casings were retrieved, but nobody seemed to have been hit.

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15

2012

Omaha, NE

As congregants were worshipping inside the Afresh Anointing Church, they heard gunshots that first sounded as if they were coming from the basement. They soon discovered they were coming from outside where 18-year-old Wallace Hubbard had been shot in the arm and lower back. He told police he did not know his attacker who confronted him as he was walking by the church.

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15

2012

South Bend, IN

“Random act of violence” seems to be the only explanation for why a couple of unidentified shooters shot at least 6 9mm rounds at a homeless man standing close to the downtown First United Methodist Church. One of the rounds cut through his pants, but none struck his body. The homeless man told police he was waiting outside the church to use their weather amnesty program.

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15

2012

Flint, MI

As people were arriving at the Salem Lutheran Church, a 54-year-old woman was approached by two men with a gun as she got out of her car. They demanded her car from her which she gave them avoiding any further confrontation. Neither they nor the car have been located.

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14

2012

Rochester, MA

Raymond C. Phelps committed suicide in front of the Holy Rosary Parish. His body was discovered as a church worker was coming into the church that morning.

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11

2012

Cordell, OK

A 12 and 13-year-old boy got into a fight in the First Baptist church basement after Wednesday night youth services. During the fight, the 12-year-old fell backward and hit his head on the floor. The boy died from his injuries. This simple juvenile scuffle was never intended to be deadly force in nature, but it ended as such. I did not want to post this one, but it is what it is.

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11

2012

Helotis, TX

On Wednesday afternoon about 3:00, Manuel Rodriguez, 51, walked into at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church with Zeferina Castillo, 54 (the proprietor of a local funeral home). They calmly walked to the front of the church, but the video recordings stopped before he shot her several times killing her. He then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide beside her at the altar. Castillo’s husband had died in 2007, and she was dating Rodriquez.

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11

2012

Rutherford, NJ

In a rash of anti-Semitic attacks occurring in the area, the latest is attempted murder as someone used several Molotov Cocktails and other incendiary devices to firebomb  the Congregation Beth El Synagogue. Rabbi Nosson Schuman was in the upstairs residence of the Synagogue where his wife and five children were also sleeping when the attack begun around 04:30 Wednesday AM. The Rabbi was treated for burns, but no other members of his family were injured when a firebomb broke through his window and failed to explode, but did ignite the bed he was sleeping on. 19-year-olds Aakash Dalal & Anthony Graziano arrested. Graziano was charged with 9 counts of attempted murder. 

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9

2012

Fredericksburg, TX

About 09:00 on Monday AM a Memorial Presbyterian Church employee was alone in the church doing administrative duties. A door chime had sounded indicating someone had entered, and when she turned around a stranger demanded cash and held up a knife. She ran into a bathroom to call 911, but he kicked in the door. He fled the scene before police arrived and the employee was unhurt.

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8

2012

Alabama City, AL

Luis Ibarra-Hernandez is an Islamist Extremist who intentionally led police into shootouts at two churches shortly after midnight.  As police were investigating shots fired, they heard shots themselves, then observed the shooter running into the Cathedral of Praise parking lot. He continued eluding and shooting, at one point engaging officers in the parking lot of the Dwight Baptist Church as well. After his arrest he acknowledged wanting to shoot police to call attention to Islam.

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6

2012

Grand Rapids, MI

A group of teens became angry at not being let into a youth event at the Streams of Hope Community Center  (launched, and partially funded / operated by Hillside Community Church).  In the confrontation that took place outside where the intruders were turned away, the anger led to 25 gunshots by the troublemakers, leaving one ministry organizer in the hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his head. No arrests made of the 8 attackers as of press time. 

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4

2012

Albuquerque, NM

As professional burglars often do, Mark Macoldowna (aka Mark Beechum – well known to law enforcement  as a constitutionalist who despised Catholicism), James Kellogg and Kymberly Bates came in from out of town specifically to case an apparent high value soft target. They believed the Archdiocese Catholic Center held valuable cash assets that would be easy taking. As the robbery began, Beechum overcame an unarmed security guard who he beat, then left tied up as he found the safe and started to exit with it not knowing the guard had managed to send an alert. When Officer Mario Perez encountered Beechum, the robber dropped the safe and began firing at Officer Perez who returned fire killing Beechum. 

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1

2012

New York, NY

80 - 100 people were worshipping in the Al-Khoei Mosque (the largest Shite Mosque in North America) when an unidentified man hit the facility with a Molotov cocktail which engulfed the main entry doors. The same man is believed to be responsible for a total of 5 fire-bombings over the weekend, including another house of Worship – a home modified into a small Hindu temple. Police are questioning a person of interest.

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1

2012

Colorado Springs, CO

As worship service was going on in the Apostolic Assembly Church, a bullet apparently fired by a passing motorist came through a window. 

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1

2012

Arlington, TX

A man was headed from the parking lot into the Iglesia Ni Cristo Church of Christ around 06:30 AM Sunday morning. He was stopped by an unidentified man in the parking lot who robbed him and shot him in the stomach. Another suspect joined the shooter as they both left in the victim’s vehicle.

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2011

Brownsville, FL

69-year-old Friendly Temple Holiness Church pastor Annie Wimberly's home was shot up for the second time in as many months  in a hit type operation. This time the pastor was struck by at least one bullet leaving her in critical condition, with one kidney removed and other life-threatening injuries. The shooters pulled up outside the home at 4:00 AM, and riddled it with bullets from at least one high-powered rifle. It appears to be a case of conflicts between youth staying in her home and other youth. 

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2011

Greenville, SC

The body of 50-year-old Billy Joe Jamison was found at the base of the steps of the Long Branch Baptist Church. Investigators estimate his time of death between midnight and 2:00 AM, and cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries. Church surveillance video was instrumental in charging 35-year-old Arthur Ferguson with murder. 59-year-old Odies Gambrell and 34-year-old Michael Keys are also charged as accessories as they now believe Jamison was killed elsewhere and the 2 helped Feguson dispose of his body at the church

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2011

Charlotte, NC

As a woman, her young daughter and another unidentified person were coming out of the Ascension Lutheran Church they encountered Reginald White. He threatened them with a gun and got away with some of their clothing in the robbery. He was arrested for robbery with a dangerous weapon.

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2011

Chattanooga, TN

The Mosaic Church has operated a teen club called “Club Fathom” at the site for many years. Weekend disturbances and police calls have been so prevalent that city leaders are pushing to shut it down. On Christmas Eve this year, 9 people were shot and wounded when gang violence broke out in the parking lot. Some of the shots fired were from an extra-duty police officer hired for security after a gang member pointed his weapon at the officer. 

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20

2011

Salt Lake City, UT

A couple of teenagers were walking through the LDS Church parking lot around 3:30 on Tuesday afternoon, when a group of teens in a vehicle stopped and confronted them. One of the attackers stabbed a 14-year-old boy in the upper chest. The boy will survive and a nearby off-duty officer saw the car and arrested 4 juveniles in the case.

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18

2011

Burlington, NC

As many people were coming into the Glen Hope Baptist Church for a Sunday evening children’s program, congregants were surprised to see a growing number of police vehicles and crime scene operations in their parking lot. In a red truck that Rev. Larry Redding had seen earlier in the day, was a man with a gunshot wound to his head. He was taken to the hospital in what has been ruled as an attempted suicide.

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18

2011

Dorchester, MA

After Sunday morning services had ended at the Joy and Gladness Pentecostal Church, only two women remained in the church. About 2:00 PM two men came in and robbed them, forcing them into a back room. One of the men claimed to have a gun and stated they shouldn’t move as the pair escaped.

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14

2011

Damascus, MD

 A male fugitive remains at large following a robbery at St. Paul’s Catholic Church. The victim was cut by the attacker's knife in the incident.

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13

2011

San Antonio, TX. 

As 45-year old Vida Jones sat praying in the St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church around 1:45 Tuesday afternoon, she was struck in the head with a hard object from behind. She tried to escape, but collapsed at the door, and was later taken to a hospital where she recovered. Registered sex offender Johnny Flores and his girlfriend Karen San Miguel are charged with the attack and related robbery.

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11

2011

Rogers, AR

A large crowd of youth had assembled in the parking lot of the Saint Vincent De Paul Catholic Church. About 9:45 PM, 19-year old Carlos Riviera got into an argument with another man that escalated to the point of the man pulling a knife and stabbing Riviera who will survive the stab wounds. The assailant is unknown (or more accurately, un-named).

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10

2011

West Valley City, UT

Christian Lizarzaburu, Anthony Corona and Eddie Garza, (all well known to local law enforcement) have been charged in the robbery and murder of 24-year-old Hairam "Bullet" Balbuena Torres. Police believe Torres was lured to the parking lot of the LDS Church with intentions of robbery. Shots were reported by area residents around 6:30 AM Saturday AM at the Church. When officers arrived they found a single vehicle behind a building in the parking lot, in which Torres was found dead. This is the 2nd deadly force incident at a West Valley City LDS Church in as many years (see also 6/6/2010 stabbing).

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6

2011

Chicago, IL

80-year old Daniel Mallette has dedicated his life to beat poverty and violence in the troubled area around his St. Margaret Parish. Early Tuesday morning inside his church he was attacked by two masked men who beat him with a blunt object and robbed the church. After they bet him, one of the attackers asked the Priest to pray for him. Mallette will survive and continue in his dedicated effort.

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10

2011

Baldwin Park, CA

19-year old Omar Martinez was in a court mandated AA meeting at the First Presbyterian Church when he got into an argument inside the church with an unnamed 20-year old man. He followed him out to his car, and shot twice as the pregnant wife of the other man was driving away. One of the shots struck the woman in the back of the neck. She was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, later upgraded and stabilized but she lost her baby. Martinez remains at large.

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2011

Grayson, GA

76-year old Clarence Porter and his 85-year old sister Avis Whitley (suffering from a severe stroke some weeks earlier) came into the First Baptist Church (where they had attended for years) before Bible study on Sunday morning. They went back outside and when they didn’t come back in for bible study, their 83-year old brother Raleigh Porter went out to the parking lot to find them. He found them both in a van where Clarence had fatally shot Avis, then turned the gun on himself in what appears to be a mercy killing / suicide.

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20

2011

Alachua County, FL

The rural Forest Grove Baptist Church was having a men’s fellowship time on Thursday evening complete with hot-dogs, horseshoes and blue-rock shooting.  Across the road, 40-year old Patrick McCall became irritated at the event and came out of his house and began firing a 9mm Sig randomly.  Robert Matthew Judah was struck by one of his bullets in the stomach, and was air-lifted with a life-threatening condition. Update 11/30/11: Mr. Judah died from injuries resulting from the shooting.

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11

2011

Shiloh, AL

Tony Ray Stone (27) was arrested for murdering his dad – 48-year old Barry Turner Stone. The two had gotten into a heated debate behind the Shiloh Baptist Church, and the younger Turner repeatedly stabbed his dad who died at the scene.

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10

2011

Gulfport, MS

70-year old Paul Buckman had attended the Orange Grove Church of Christ, but was arrested for molesting the severely disabled son of Minister Les Ferguson and his wife Karen. Buckman bonded out of jail, then went to the Ferguson’s home early Monday afternoon where he shot and killed the disabled son (21-year old Trevor Cole) and his mother before killing himself at another location. Karen had instructed another 5-year old son to run when Buckman entered, and that little boy made it to a neighbor’s home who called Police.

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2

2011

Bremerton, WA

Pastor Sigi Helgeson noticed a truck under the Family of God Lutheran Church car port that didn’t look right as she approached the church at 08:00 AM Sunday before services. Then she saw the hand-made signs in the window, “Do not come near. Truck will explode. Danger is gas”. Following careful inspections by Hazmat and Explosives specialists, a dead man was finally extracted from the cab which contained lethal amounts of chemical gas he had used for the suicide.

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28

2011

Oklahoma City, OK

Terry Rosado regularly picks up trash in the parking lot of the Penn Avenue Church of the Nazarene. As she was policing the parking lot for trash on Wednesday AM, she noticed a white box sitting in front of the church dumpster that hadn’t been there just minutes earlier. She tossed it into the dumpster, and was back across the street when an explosion rocked the neighborhood from the dumpster. The ATF is now investigating.

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24

2011

Wichita, KS

Members of the Jehovah’s Witness Church in north Wichita were doing yardwork on Saturday when they discovered a suspicious backpack next to their building. It contained 5 homemade explosive devices that were disposed of by law enforcement bomb technicians. 

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16

2011

Lakeland, FL

Jeremiah and Theresa Fogle had previously attended the Greater Faith Christian Center Church. In fact, Jeremiah had been a deacon there before they left and started their own ministry out of their home. Fogle (who had served time for killing his first wife in 1987) then shot and killed Theresa on that Sunday morning in their home, then made it back to their old church and came in shooting, wounding two pastors. He was tackled and stopped by other church members, and the wounded pastors are expected to survive.

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17

2011

Greenville, SC

Authorities believe 48-year old Sean Dinneen had arranged to meet someone Saturday night in the parking lot of the Crosswell First Baptist Church who were interested in purchasing his car. Shots were fired in the parking lot, Dinneed was killed and the car stolen. The church pastor was in disbelief that such a thing would happen at his church, and is now considering security measures. Tavish Yeargin, Kayla Williams, and Nyia Utsey were arrested less than a week later.

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14

2011

Columbus, OH

The fifth Ave. U.B. Church was preparing to open for a homeless outreach at 09:00 Wednesday AM. Before they were supposed to start, one of the homeless men came in and tried to steal a cell phone. When he was stopped, he turned violent stabbing one of the church volunteers before running off. The victim suffered non-life threatening wounds, and was transported to a local hospital.

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13

2011

Chillicothe, OH

When police responded to a call of suspicious vehicle activity, they found a man dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They discovered him just after 04:00 Tuesday AM still in his vehicle sitting at the Chillicothe Baptist Church softball field. He died about 3 hours later.

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12

2011

Austin, TX

From April through September of 2011, the United Christian Church building had been shot at least 12 times. In a model response  (both in security measures and keeping the balance of primary purpose) the leadership responded effectively. Security cameras installed by the church eventually identified a vehicle belonging to Allen Delgadillo who had visited the church at least 8 times. Delgadillo told investigators after his arrest on this date that he shot the church (and other buildings) because he was depressed.

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11

2011

Minden, NV

A Lifepoint Church Sunday School teacher had her class of youngsters outside. About 11:40 that Sunday AM, 21-year old Jacob Wilcher approached and snatched away a 10-year old boy and ran off with him. Church officials caught him behind the church where he had the boy pinned down and was undressing. They wrestled the boy free, and maintained visual contact with Wilcher as he fled the scene allowing law enforcement to intervene and arrest him.

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4

2011

Salisbury, MD

Alice Davis (55) was reported missing on that Sunday by her husband Jess (57). As his story became suspicious, he committed suicide a few days later. Then on Sunday 9/11/11 church congregants found her body the Supreme Council of the House of Jacob Church where police now believe Jess killed her with heavy blunt trauma to the head.

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30

2011

Tulsa, OK

An apparent drug-deal gone bad resulted in Zane Atchison shooting and killing Patrick Shawn, 27 & Kaylyn Kosofsky, 24 at 7:40 PM on Tuesday eve in the parking lot of the Open Bible Fellowship where they had met. As police were investigating the homicide of the man, church workers at the other end of the parking lot discovered the woman as they were leaving church.

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30

2011

Bossier City, LA

45-year old Allan Corby Haltom had a recent history of violence towards his 44-year old wife, Angela Gaye. Though he was arrested on some of those charges, a defense attorney convinced the courts to reduce bail based on his military record, standing in the community and lack of arrests prior to his recent trouble with his wife. He was released, then shot and killed her then himself in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church where he had waited for her to leave the church day care where she worked.

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26

2011

New Castle, DE

When fighting erupted between teens at a Friday night party at the New Castle Church, security guards hired by the party organizers used chemical spray to control the disruption. The teens poured out of the church, but continued their fighting in the parking lot where guns were pulled and a 19-year old was shot and wounded in the brawl.

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22

2011

Miami, FL

25-year old Douglas Betancourt was asked to leave the Centro Evangelistico Luz Church in 2009 (having been a member for 2 years) following alleged sexual harassment of a female church member in a bathroom. The church did not notify law enforcement, but let God deal with him. Betancourt returned to a Monday evening service 2 years later and sat silently in the back of the church for the service. Outside, after the service was over, Betancourt began yelling at the pastor, “we have a score to settle!” & rushed him with a knife. As the pastor escaped, three other men were cut in their efforts to shield the pastor. 

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16

2011

Jackson, TN

Alvin “A. J.” Waller Jr. raped a woman in his car behind the Grace Baptist Church, and then shot her in the head as she tried to escape. The woman was treated and released, but police have now connected Waller to at least three other kidnapping type rapes, two of which occurred in church parking lots. Waller would sometimes have consensual sex with his victims, then turn violent and hit them with a pistol as raped them.

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12

2011

Spartanburg, SC

About 8:45 PM Friday eve, shots were heard at the Last Day Healing and Deliverance Center. When police arrived they found a woman kneeling beside 18-year old O’Shea Adams who had died from the gunshot wounds in the church lawn. 2 women (22-year old Ladavious Mathis and 19-year old Tkeyah Odam) were later arrested. It appears that the victim was not the intended target in the attack considered gang-related.

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10

2011

Memphis, TN

11th-grader Eduardo Marmolejo attacked Principal Suzette York with a knife, killing her in the Seventh Day Adventist Christian School named the Memphis Junior Academy. Marmolejo said he didn’t like York after she had made him mad months earlier, and had known he would be alone with her in that classroom and would have the opportunity to kill her.

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7

2011

St. Elmo, GA

Immediately following Sunday Services at the New Welcome Baptist Church, a disagreement over getting fired resulted in former music pastor Simone Moore tasing pastor Darryl Riley, igniting a church brawl. The Mayhem quickly spread through the church, and Moore’s mother was stabbed by a deacon in the confusion resulting from the attack. Assault arrests were made, and 6 people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, including Pastor Riley who Moore also bashed with a blunt object resulting in 32 stitches.

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5

2011

Atascadero, CA

4-year old Jeremy Guthrie was abducted from The First Baptist Church homeless shelter (El Camino Homeless Organization) by 52-year old Annette Hale after an argument the night before between Hale and Jeremy’s mother. The boy was found 12 hours later unharmed in an abandoned building. Hale was found and arrested a short time later

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3

2011

Mount Vernon, NY

Children and fellow choir members were stunned and horrified as 53-year old Sharon Winston was attacked and stabbed as she exited the Greater Centennial AME Zion church about 9:00 PM following choir practice. It is believed that she knew her attacker, but no arrests have been made. Winston was transported and was in stable condition, while congregation members expressed shock that such a thing could happen at a church.

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30

2011

Los Angeles, CA

A 35-year old inmate was injured in a jail fight, and was being transported by ambulance to an area medical facility. The inmate overpowered the ambulance crew, escaped the vehicle and made it into the El Divino Salvador Presbyterian Church. As officers were searching the church, the man attacked one of the officers with a knife stabbing him. Other officers fired on the suspect killing him in the church. The stabbed officer is expected to recover.

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28

2011

Parksley, VA

As Candelero de Oro Church member Belarmino Escalante was in the church parking lot with friends awaiting a ride to their work, a group of young men pulled up in a car. When Escalante refused their offering of drugs, one of the men in the car shot and killed him as they drove away. Escalante leaves behind a wife and 4 children ages 1-7

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2011

Ladson, SC

Freedom Free Will Baptist pastor Dale Richardson was eventually arrested for kidnapping and raping a woman at gunpoint on that day. The investigation is looking at the likely potential of Richardson being an area serial rapist, some of which included kidnapping with a deadly weapon and raping them (at least one of which occurred in a trailer on church property). It is a shock to most who know 46-year old Richardson who grew up in the community, has been married for 26 years, and is the father of two. He hadn’t raised any suspicions among those who knew him.

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24

2011

Punta Gorda, FL

Nearly 34 years after being married at the Friendship United Methodist Church, 60 year old Bruce Wright and his 57-year old wife Patricia returned to the church to commit suicide together. Their bodies were found behind the church by the pastor. Bruce was dead at the scene, and Patricia died later in a hospital. One used a rifle and the other a shotgun, both self-inflicted to their heads. They had driven from their home in Las Vegas to die at the church.

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17

2011

Albuquerque, NM

Police continue to look for 4 men in connection with the shooting death of Quincy Booker who was gunned down in front of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church as a Baby Shower was being attended by dozens of people inside. The 4 had jumped out of a car and opened fire on Booker as he was in front of the church. Several stray bullets struck the church on that Sunday Afternoon homicide.

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15

2011

Avondale, GA

A worker at the Avondale Patillo United Methodist Church reported a suspicious person to police who were on scene regarding an unrelated traffic stop. When the officer approached the suspect, a chase and altercation resulted in which the officer shot and killed the suspect behind the church.

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11

2011

Waveland, MS

Law enforcement used OnStar to track and arrest Jeremy Wayne Manieri as he was driving an SUV he stole from Father Edward Everitt. Investigators believe robbery was the motive (though Manieri claims sexual abuse) for Manieri killing the priest at a retreat center for priests owned and ran by the Catholic Dominican order where Manieri worked as a handi-man.

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3

2011

Springfield, MA

Sacred Heart priest, Father Paul Archambault committed suicide by shooting himself. He was found in a closet in the rectory, when he failed to show up for Mass.

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1

2011

Colorado Springs, CO

Former soldier Matthew Moore was shot in the chest outside the Calvary Baptist Church. Police found 8 bullet casings near the northwest corner of the building. Moore collapsed down the street after knocking on a resident’s home for help. He died in the hospital. Two men arrested on kidnapping, murder and related charges in what was discovered as a drug deal gone bad.

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28

2011

Charlotte, SC

As two dozen seniors were gathered for a daily luncheon on that Tuesday AM at the Gethsemane AME Zion Church, someone fired a weapon from outside into the church. The shot missed everyone. No suspects have been named.

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25

2011

St. Helena, SC

As a 37-year old employee was locking up the Parish Church of St. Helena at around 10:00 PM on that Saturday night, he was approached by a man with a handgun . He was forced at gunpoint back into the church where he was tied up and robbed. The employee managed to get free and call 911. Police arrived to find the man attempting to leave in the victim’s car, but the man fled on foot and was never caught.

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15

2011

St. Martin, MS

The LeMoyne Boulevard Baptist Church grounds became the site of a serious gang fight. Blood remained on the steps of the church as many were arrested following the battle that included improvised weapons of various nature including bricks and rocks. It is unclear why the church parking lot was selected as the scene for the 11:00 PM Wednesday gang fight that erupted after all church members had left after mid-week services. 

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11

2011

Brockton, MA

51-year old Jennifer Teixeira had just finished volunteering at the Mount Moriah Baptist Church as she often did. As she walked out of the church, an altercation was occurring between youth at a nearby store. Repeat offender 19-year old Frank James Webb III (out on bail at the time of the shooting) began recklessly firing a .45 handgun. One of the rounds struck Jennifer in the back, killing her.

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6

2011

Birmingham, AL

An employee of the Village Ministries witnessed a domestic altercation between a woman and man (who were not affiliated with the ministry) outside of the building. He interrupted the assault, but in the course of his intervention was shot three times by that assailant. His wounds were life-threatening, but he is expected to survive. No arrests made at press time.

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4

2011

Detroit, MI

A fight broke out between youth attending a sweet sixteen party at the WOW Church and Life Center. Shots were fired and three people were injured, one was in critical condition. 3 people were taken into custody.

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31

2011

Altamonte Springs, FL

As a 41-year old female employee was unlocking St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Parish, she heard a noise and readied her pepper spray. A little while later as she came out of a stall in the women’s restroom she was confronted by an intruder in the restroom. He punched and choked her, knocking her to the ground. He then stole rings off her fingers, but when he said he was going to stab her and reached around behind his back she hit him with the pepper spray which stopped the attack and sent the unknown assailant running off.

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31

2011

Eugene, OR

Transient Michael Walker was naked as he rushed at maintenance workers with a knife in one hand and a box of Oreo cookies in the other.  The aggression occurred inside Our Redeemer Lutheran Church at 11:00 AM Tuesday AM. Workers were able to avoid his attempts at stabbing them, as well as get word to a room filled with dozens of pre-schoolers to lock down. Walker was quickly arrested.

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31

2011

Harrisburg, PA

23-year-old Melvin Vazquez-Algarin and 31-year old Adalberto Sanchez have been arrested and charged in the attempted murder of a 24-year old man shot seven times in front of the First Church of the Brethren. The church sign and two doors also took shots in that violent attack which occurred at 1:00 AM on Tuesday. The incident was triggered over the sister of the victim.

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28

2011

Mililani, HI

Three men got into an argument on Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of the Mililani Presbyterian Church. Two of the men attacked the victim. One man stabbed the victim, as the other punched him. One is charged with attempted murder and other with terroristic threatening. The victim is expected to survive.

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27

2011

Parker, CO

33-year-old Aziza Mukhtar had lost her child in Sudan, so she chose to kidnap a replacement 4-year old child for herself from the Colorado Muslim Society Mosque playground at 1:00 Friday Afternoon. She was caught on video surveillance, and the child was returned (due in part to the woman’s husband) and Mukhtar arrested within 3 hours. The little girl knew her mother’s cell phone number which had a significant impact on her safe return. 

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25

2011

DeLand, FL

As two women were coming out of Wednesday night bible study at Praise Chapel, a man came running out of the nearby woods as they were going across the parking lot. He put a gun to the head of Carol Purcaro and demanded her purse. He then ran back into the woods and was not caught.

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20

2011

St. Clair Shores, MI

Teens got into an altercation at the community fair being held in the parking lot of the St Joan of Arc Catholic Church. When the fair closed for the night at 11:30 that Friday, the argument continued down the street and a 16-year old boy was stabbed. He is expected to survive, and arrests are certain to follow.

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14

2011

Vallejo, CA

Staff of the Springbrook Masonic Temple found Keith Erick Osby Jr, deceased from gunshot wounds. His body was in the bushes around the parking lot. Neighbors had reported hearing gunshots earlier. The temple was in the process of installing security cameras but they were not yet operating.

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14

2011

Houston, TX

As a member of the Madrasah Islamiah Mosque was sleeping inside, a group smashed in through windows at the back of the building around 3:30 AM on that Saturday. Once inside they doused a back room with gasoline and set the mosque on fire. The member inside escaped injury & called 911.

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12

2011

Georgetown, SC

24-year old Maliek Gibbs stabbed 17-year-old Marquise Bessellieu in the parking lot of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church after a basketball game in the church. Gibbs had earlier stolen the basketball from the players in the church gym, and then returned to attack Bessellieu who faces weeks of recovery from the stabbing.

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9

2011

Appleton, WI

Two good but scared kids made a bad decision when they decided to abandon their newborn baby. The teen dad abandoned the baby outside of the Fox Valley Christian Fellowship. The newborn was discovered before the cold evening could have made it a murder case. The parents were arrested, but given leniency by the attorneys and judge in the case. 

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7

2011

Mechanicsville, GA

The Mechanicsville United Church of Christ had been the target of repeated vandalism and arson over recent months. As a group of the vandals gathered around the car of Bishop Alex Williams, he shot one of them (a 13-year old boy) who threw a rock through his back window. Charges against Williams were soon dropped, the boy recovered and was soon arrested on other charges.

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5

2011

Winterport, ME

Shortly after moving to town and resuming attendance at the Calvary Apostolic Church that his father formerly pastored, 20-year old Wilbur "Wes" Strout broke into the church through a back window just before 10:00 AM on a Thursday. Once inside he used accelerants spread around the church and his own body to burn the church down and commit suicide.

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27

2011

Sanford, FL

About 9:00 PM on a Wednesday evening as the church band was practicing and the pastor was still present, two masked men burst into the otherwise empty Iglesia Apostolica church and forced the pastor and band members at gunpoint into a back room. They robbed them of their car keys, wallets and credit cards and fled. The attackers have yet to be caught. (see similar 1/11/11 incident in same town)

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25

2011

Omaha, NE

Early Monday afternoon, Police were called to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. They found a man dead inside of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His name has not yet been released as the investigation continues.

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21

2011

Phoenix, AZ

52-year old Trinity Baptist Church pastor Nicholas William Minerva was being investigated for inappropriate internet sexual activity involving a minor girl. As police made contact with him in the church for further questioning, he ran away from the investigators and retreated into the church where he shot and killed himself.

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18

2011

Grove City, OH

Law Enforcement authorities remain tight-lipped regarding a suspicious package found in a daycare area under construction inside Our Lady of Perpetual Help church on Monday afternoon. It was serious enough to evacuate the nearby residences and a nearby US Hiway. The package was handled with a bomb robot., and brought outside the church where it was detonated with a significant blast.

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17

2011

Macomb, IL

52-year old Darwin Armentrout was walking across the street towards the First Presbyterian Church where he was going to attend the 08:00 Sunday morning service. With no provocation, Robert Wilson (a 36-year old homeless man staying in the area) attacked him with a knife stabbing him multiple times. Armentrout escaped into the church, and was taken to an area hospital where he is expected to survive. Wilson was arrested shortly after with multiple self-inflicted stab wounds and air-lifted to a hospital himself.

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16

2011

Athens, OH

A 20-24 year old broad-shouldered Black male over 6’ tall, and wearing dark pants and a sweater (possibly a hoodie) approached a single female college student as she was walking alone at 4:00 AM in the parking lot of the Christ the King Church. He forced her at knife-point into a small outbuilding where he raped her. Athens Police are asking anyone with information to please call.

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14

2011

Washington DC

Though he had traveled a short distance from the Delaware Avenue Baptist Church when he was attacked, police believe a wheelchair-bound victim was targeted at the church where he had just attended a funeral. He was brutally stabbed and at press time was in life threatening condition. Kaleik Lawson, cousin of the murdered man the funeral was for, is believed to be the attacker. Lawson held the wheelchair-bound man at least partially responsible for his cousin’s murder.

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13

2011

Snohomish, WA

At about 5:30 PM as people were coming to the Christ the King Church for Wednesday services, 19-year old Terrance Lawson saw a 21-year old man in the parking lot that he had been arguing with earlier. He pulled into the church parking lot, got out of his truck, and shot him three times at close range before speeding off. The victim was airlifted, and authorities later arrested Lawson as well as his female accomplice and three others who harbored and abetted the couple

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9

2011

Seattle, WA

A 26-year old man was found so badly beaten he could not respond, sitting in his car in the parking lot of the Mount Zion Baptist Church. Police responded to the call from a passerby at around 10:45 in the morning. No suspects have yet been named and the man has not been able to give any information.

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7

2011

Los Angeles, CA

A significant explosion sent concrete into the air and launched a 4 foot chunk of pipe which knocked a hole in the Chabad House Lubavitch, then deflected into a nearby home. It was at first thought to be an industrial accident, but now investigators have determined the blast was intentional. Authorities arrested 60-year old transient Ron Hirsch (aka Israel or “J.” Fisher) the following Monday in Ohio. He was a frequent benevolence seeker at this and other Jewish faith-based organizations in the Southern CA area. Explosives experts have determined the bomb was made by pouring hundreds of pounds of concrete into a trash can around explosives.

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22

2011

Carbondale, CO

Police Officer Nino Santiago Sr. was being investigated for crimes of a sexual nature when he chose the parking lot of the Church at Carbondale (which is a shared parking lot of an adjacent elementary School) to kill himself.

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22

2011

Logan, OH

25-year old Summer Logan’s body was found in the septic tank of the small rural Faith Tabernacle Church. She had been abducted off of a street by her estranged husband and his parents who attended the church where her body was found. Her wrists were bound with a ziptie, and another ziptie was synched around her neck which had caused her strangulation death. Her very controlled marriage had been one of mental and emotional abuse. When she had filed for divorce in June of 2010 he had threatened to kill her.

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18

2011

Eugene, OR

At 3:00 AM following St Patrick’s Day events, a man and his girlfriend were walking through the parking lot of the St Mary Parish Church. Three men approached the couple and an argument that had started elsewhere turned to physical confrontation in the church parking lot. One of the three men pulled a knife and stabbed the victim who was treated and released.

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11

Eden, NC

Eric Blackstock (25) and Akeen Laquan Clark (20) got into an argument (over the best areas to live in the area) at a Friday night party at the Bethlehem United Methodist Church Community Center. Clark produced a handgun and fired multiple times, hitting Blackstock once in the chest. Clark was arrested the following Wednesday in Virginia. Blackstock had by then been upgraded from critical condition to stable. Alcohol was a factor. 

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8

2011

St. Louis, MO

17-year old Anytrone Demarco Jones was shot multiple times in the back, and died in the parking lot of the Hopewell Baptist Church. No suspects have been identified. It occurred around 7:50 PM on a Tuesday night.

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6

11

Port Gibson, MS

As a worker was preparing the First Baptist Church for Sunday AM services, he discovered a trauma scene and the partially nude body of 34-year old Patricia Dotson lying behind church air conditioning equipment. Dotson died as a result of blunt force trauma to her head and stab wounds in her face. 40-year old Dexter Watson was arrested following a 2 week investigation.

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5

2011

DeKalb County, AL

70-year old Pete Bailey was convinced by 37-year old Patty Elaine Westbrook to give her a ride from a gas station in the pre-dawn Saturday morning. It was a setup involving Westbrook’s 55-year old boyfriend who followed them in another vehicle. Westbrook ordered Bailey off the road at the rural Macedonia No. 1 Baptist Church, where she shot him in the chest and took his vehicle. Westbrook is charged with attempted murder, and her boyfriend faces other charges. Bailey remained in intensive care at press time.

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3

2011

Arlington, TX

24-year old career criminal Steven L. Nelson and 19-year old Anthony G. Springs arrested in connection to the mid week-day murder of 28-year old NorthPointe Baptist pastor Clint Dobson and brutal beating of 67-year old ministry assistant Judy Elliot, The crime appears to have been the result of a violent robbery at the church. Nelson had just been released to parole less than 2 weeks before and was staying at an apartment complex close to the church. The pastor was killed by suffocation from a bag placed over his head.

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2

2011

San Diego, CA

Someone threw an acid bomb into the parking lot of the Christ Chapel. The device had gone off when Bomb squad arrived, but nobody was injured. The incident is under investigation.

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1

2011

Hillsborough, OR

With no known connection to the LDS church, 54-year old Grant Bell must have felt it was the right place to kill his 6-year old son then himself. Their bodies were found in a field, 30 yards from where he parked his car behind the church.

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28

2011

Grosse Pointe Park, MI

As a 74-year old nun was locking up the St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic Church on a Monday night, a man approached from behind. He held a gun to her, and demanded money. He escaped with nothing after forcing her back into the church.

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26

2011

Stone Mountain, GA

A 53-year old woman was working alone in the Saint Timothy United Methodist Church on that Saturday afternoon. About 3:30 PM a man knocked on the door of the church, and when she opened the door he pushed his way in, robbed her, brutally beat her and sexually assaulted her. The attacker has not been identified.

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26

2011

Marshfield, MA

As an early evening AA meeting was going on inside the Trinity Episcopal Church, two homemade bombs were detonated on the lawn of the church. The blasts rattled nearby homes and resulted in many 911 calls. No suspects were as of press time.

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23

2011

Hollywood, FL

24-year old Jonathon Shea (with a history of mental illness) started screaming incoherently and became violent, threatening a mid-day bible study class with a knife in the Luther Memorial Lutheran Church. 78-year old pastor James Corgee and church facilities worker Luis Bieble forced him outside of the small classroom and secured the door. Responding officers shot Shea (who was transported to a hospital where he was in stable condition) when he rushed them.

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21

2011

Brownsville, TX

49-yearold Father Ricardo Garcia found in the back yard of the rectory of the Mary Mother of the Church Catholic Church. His death is ruled as an apparent suicide.

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6

2011

Beaumont, TX

Pastor James McAbee was driving past his Lighthouse Worship Center on Sunday afternoon when he saw 2 men breaking into his church. He called 911, then went in to make certain they did not do further damage until authorities arrived. One of the young men threatened him with a 2 X 4, but pastor McAbee held both men at bay with his handgun until police arrived.

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6

2011

Santa Ana, CA

18-year old Jose Alberto Neri was high on Meth and hallucinating that the people from the nearby Iglesia Cristiana Principe de Paz Church were coming through the mirrors in his house and invading his privacy. When area residents learned he was planning to attack the church, they called police. Neri was apprehended outside of the church (which had about 50 members inside for Sunday services) as he was approaching with a knife and Molotov cocktail.

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6

2011

Poplar Bluff, MO

Four teenagers ranging in age from 17 to 19 years old threw Molotov Cocktails into the Fellowship General Baptist Church. When the fire bombs didn’t result in their desired affect, the teens returned to the church throwing gasoline through the windows broken by the firebombing and set the church on fire.

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5

2011

Lithonia, GA

An unidentified man was found with gun-shot wounds in the parking lot of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church by DeKalb Police who had been called to the scene. Police believe the shooting took place in the parking lot, but have no suspects in custody. The victim was in critical condition as of last reports

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4

2011

Brookeland, TX

Two 25-year old men (Alvin Garrett and Johnny Sampson) got into an argument in the parking lot of the Brookeland Church. Garrett produced a weapon and shot Sampson in the chest. Sampson is expected to live, Garrett is in custody.

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30

2011

Monroe, WA

34-year old Jayme Biendl was the lone correctional officer assigned to the Monroe Correctional Facility Chapel when she was attacked and killed by inmate Byron Scherf. Scherf (serving a “3rd strike life sentence” for rape and assault) strangled her to death in the prison chapel.

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16

2011

Oakland, CA

19-year old Kerry Baxter Jr. and his girlfriend were outside of St. Anthony's Church around 10:00 PM when a robber approached them and shot Baxter dead. His girlfriend was unharmed and no arrests have been made. The church pastor ran out and comforted Kerry as he passed away.

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15

2011

Philadelphia, PA

A fight started at a bar, but ended in gunfire outside of the East Bethel Baptist Church where 24-year old male was killed and a 20-year old male was hospitalized with critical injuries from a gunshot wound.

1

11

2011

Sanford, FL

47-year old Pastor Leonard Wilson was leaving St. Matthew's Missionary Baptist Church at 4:15 AM when he was attacked by 2 masked men armed with a handgun. They kicked and beat him, and forced him back into the church to continue the attack. They took his wallet, keys, 2 laptop computers and a petty cash container. 

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10

2011

Cliffside Park, NJ

As police searched the apartment of missing 46-year old Francisco Gonzales, K-9 patrols located his dismembered head and torso at the nearby St. Demetrius Melkite-Greek Church. Pedro Garcia, and Wilfredo Sanchez are charged with his stabbing death, but police are tight-lipped on exactly how and where the gruesome murder was performed.

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8

2011

Brooklyn, NY

A dispute erupted during a baby shower inside Brooklyn’s Bethel United Zion Church. As the argument spilled outside the church, guns came out and three men were shot in the legs and arms. No arrests were made as of last reports.

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8

2011

Indianapolis. IN

The pastor of First Samuel Missionary Baptist Church requested police presence at a Saturday funeral. His concerns were verified when troublemakers tried to forcibly enter the service being attended by 600-700 mourners. Arguing erupted inside the church, & the pastor ordered everyone out. The violence escalated, more officers were called in then shots were fired where some of the group had headed down the street. One 16-year old male was shot in the leg. The shooter was arrested.

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6

2011

Adair, OK

18-year old Zachary Wade arrested for the carjacking and murder of 56-year old Edgar Brown whose body was found in front of the Liberty Baptist Church. Brown died of massive head trauma, but it remains unclear if the murder occurred at the church or if his body was discarded there.

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5

2011

Rainier, OR

Around 10:45 AM on that Wednesday morning, the Assembly of God pastor heard loud shouts outside his window in the parking lot of the commercial complex they share with other businesses. Seeing multiple officers with weapons drawn, he told everyone in the church to get down. Shooting commenced and a bullet came through the window he had just looked through, so he and others ran to the other end of the church. When the shooting was over, Police Chief Ralph Painter was killed in the parking lot shootout with 21-year-old Daniel Butts.

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1

2011

York, PA

All About Christ Church had rented their facility out to a group for use as a Saturday night dance party. A fight broke out at the party and multiple gunshots were fired, wounding three teenagers with non-life threatening injuries, and the church building was damaged. No arrests have been made.