By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A man pulled a gun on the pastor of a church during sermon, attempting to shoot him on Sunday in Pennsylvania.
Stonix News reports that the incident happened shortly after 1 p.m. at Jesus Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock.
Pennsylvania Police identified Bernard Junior Polite, 26, as the gunman who entered the church and attempted to shoot Pastor Glenn Germany as he was delivering his sermon during a live stream.
The viral video of the sermon shows Germany speaking as Polite comes into the frame and points a gun at the pastor before church members take action and tackle the suspected shooter.
Police said Polite pointed the gun at the pastor and attempted to shoot but the gun failed to discharge.
“A congregation member took immediate action by grabbing onto Polite.
“The member and the pastor were able to subdue and disarm Polite,” police noted in a news release.
Germany told our source that Polite smiled at him before the attempted attack.
“I started to begin to preach, and all of a sudden, from my left-hand side, I saw him move from the back to the front of the church, and he set up in the front corner of the church and smiled at me,” Germany said.
Polite was held at the church until troopers arrived, according to the police.
Pastor Germany later posted a video to his Facebook page discussing the frightening incident and saying it is presumed Polite killed his cousin in his home before going to the church.
“Right at this minute, the guy who actually came in the church to do the shooting, there are police at his house right now.
“His house has yellow tape. I was told that a body was found in there dead, so it’s presumed that he actually came down after he did the shooting at his house, he came down to the church and he said that he was possessed by spirits.
“He said that it was spirits talking to him; it was spirits that told him to come and shoot inside the church,” Germany said.
The Allegheny County Police Department confirmed to The National Desk that Polite is a suspect in the deadly shooting and “is known to live at the residence where the shooting occurred and is a relative of the shooting victim.”
“At 8:15 pm on May 5, County 911 was notified of a male shot in the 500 block of Stokes Avenue in North Braddock.
“First responders found an adult male, later identified as 56-year-old Derek Polite, deceased inside the residence,” police said.
Allegheny County police added no charges have been filed in connection to the homicide and it remains an active investigation.
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