The police in Winona in front of the church Methodist where a pastor was killed on January 3 190. – Zak Wellerman / AP / SIPA
Even if the act may seem symbolic, the city sheriff has however excluded , at this stage, any ideological motivation for the crime
. A pastor was killed and a person injured on Sunday in a Methodist church in Winona, a town in
Texas
, announced the same sheriff, Larry Smith, specifying that a suspect had been arrested.
The suspect hiding in the toilet
The drama took place which took place just before the service, when the pastor, who had just arrived with his wife and two other people, discovered an intruder in his church, Larry Smith explained to the cameras of the local channel KLTV. “When he opened the bathroom door, he found himself face to face with a man who was hiding in his church,” he said. This intruder, wanted after a shooting which occurred in the night, then seized the weapon of the pastor and the shot down. He then injured another person before fleeing with his victim’s car. He was arrested after a chase. Wounded in the hand, he was hospitalized, specified the sheriff.
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