A Louisiana diocese says parishioners subdued a teenager with a gun during a church service for dozens of young children. Officials with the Catholic Diocese of Lafayette said Tuesday that they're weighing new safety protocols after Saturday's confrontation at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville, a small city in the southern part of the state.
ABBEVILLE, La. — Parishioners subdued a teenager with a gun who entered a Louisiana church during a service for dozens of young children, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Officials in the Catholic diocese are weighing new safety protocols, including the possibility of someone carrying a firearm at services, after Saturday’s confrontation at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville, a small city in the southern part of the state.
Inside, about 60 second graders and their families had packed the church for the children’s First Communion. Video footage showed altar servers running, clergy ducking for cover, and the Rev. Nicholas Dupre asking parishioners to join him in prayer.Wisconsin GOP-led Senate votes to override nine Evers vetoes in mostly symbolic actionAbbeville police said on Facebook that officers took the suspect into custody and interviewed him with a parent before taking him to a hospital behavioral health unit. He is being charged with terrorizing and two counts of possession of a firearm by a juvenile.
“It was one of those really isolated incidents,” she said. “The question becomes: Do you have an armed presence every single mass?”
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