Children were inside St. Mary Magdalen in Abbeville, Louisiana, waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said.
Children were inside St. Mary Magdalen in Abbeville, Louisiana, waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said.
Churchgoers thwarted a teenager armed with a rifle from entering a Louisiana church full of children Saturday in a service that was being livestreamed, authorities said.
Police were called to St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville, 20 miles south of Lafayette, at 10:35 a.m. when the 16-year-old suspect tried to get in via the back door.
Around 60 children were inside the Catholic church at the time waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said.
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The suspect was arrested and later charged with terrorizing the church and two counts of possession of a firearm by a juvenile. Witnesses told KADN of Lafayette that he was dressed all in black and armed with the rifle.
It sounds like they're taking a mental health care based approach which is probably the most likely to prevent recidivism. People who commit mass shootings aren't sound of mind (neither are lawmakers that prevent common sense gun control, but that's a separate consideration).
I'm absolutely lost at how things can get so bad that a person's response is such senseless violence.
It breaks my heart and anyone, especially a youth, can get this lost in the Darkness without someone interceding. Perhaps some have tried. Either way... I hope the youth receives the help they need. If justice needs to be found for something in their past, I hope the authorities can find it and help them. I hope the youth may experience freedom of mind, healing, and goodness.
Ugh... There's just no way a state like Louisiana has the mental health care apparatus needed for this. Obviously real mental health help is ideal, but I just don't believe it'll happen.
That's horrible to hear. We get on edge about the constant military/economic threat of China here in Australia, but that's much more an existential threat than immediate one. The idea that some random citizen could end 100 peoples lives in minutes is terrifying.
We have people over here that I'm sure would be a school shooter situation if we had guns.
Weird, I thought that a kid entering the church with a gun made the church safer, no? Had 20 teens entered with 20 guns it would be 20 times more saferest, correct? More guns=more safer right? Im so confused.
Parents? I don't feel safe living in the United States and I was born here. I used to live in this one shitty suburb that was at the time in the middle of a gang war. They mostly stayed away from us because we were four white guys living in a house but one of our neighbors got his glass back door shot out by a stray bullet by some gangbanger running from a Latin King. I never did find out how that gang war ended but I wouldn't be surprised if the Kings took over the area.