A quick-thinking Tennessee pastor stopped a man who pulled out a gun during a church service on Sunday, tackling the suspect from behind and bringing him to the ground, harrowing surveillance video shows.
Dezire Baganda, 26, was sitting at the front of Sunday's service at the Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church when he suddenly pulled out a gun, police said.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The “heroic actions” of a Tennessee pastor who tackled a man waving and pointing a gun during a service “saved a church from further violence," police
A quick-thinking pastor in Nashville and a handful of congregants managed to tackle and disarm a suspect police said brandished a firearm during a Sunday morning service.
A potential massacre at Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal in Nashville, Tennessee, was averted Sunday when the congregation’s pastor tackled a man who pointed a gun at the congregation from the pulpit while they were in prayer.
Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church Pastor Ezekiel Ndikumana believed there was nothing else to do but to tackle the man waving a gun during his Sunday service.
Ezekiel Ndikumana, pastor at Light Mission Pentecostal Church, tackled an armed man Sunday during the church service. Ndikumana credits God for giving him the strength to protect his congregation.
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