Cops: Suspect with shotgun robs church choir

WCSC ^ | Jan 19, 2012 | Ray Rivera

[george76]

GOOSE CREEK, SC - Investigators say a man armed with a shotgun robbed a choir group at a church in Goose Creek Wednesday night.

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One of the victims told police that a man entered the church through an unlocked door and aimed a shotgun towards the choir area. The victims told police that the suspect then told the choir to get on the floor and to "Keep your heads down, I'll blow your head off."...

the suspect continued to demand everyone's wallets and purses

[JRandomFreeper]

Wouldn't have happened in my church. There would have been a moment of silence followed by the sound of metal sliding out of leather, velcro ripping, and purses being dropped.

Afterwards, prayers for the departed.

/johnny

[LukeL]

And a call to the local carpet cleaner.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A church whose choir meets on Wednesday is probably a fair sized one. Nobody there wanted to pack heat? Or could?

[drpix]

"Investigators describe the suspect as a black male between 5'10" to 5'11, 230 lbs, wearing a black knit cap, blue jeans, light colored jacket, gray jogging style shoes and armed with a shotgun."

Of course the article doesn't say, but this excerpt from the church's website (stjamesumcgoosecreek.org) "These events are for the whole family and usually follow a theme, such as a Sock Hop, Australia Night, Harvest Hoedown, etc." is pretty good evidence that it is a white congregation.

So it must have been, by the media's PC definition, a random attack.

Now had it been the armed robbery of a black church by a white male, by the same media's PC definition, it would have been a racial attack.

And then Obama would take a page from the Clinton's 1996 reelection and campaigned on Black Churches in the South under attack.

[sarge83]

Same with mine. Other than myself I know of at least two deacons and a retired cop would would have cleared leather and perforated the piece of human debris.

[JRandomFreeper]

I've got a snub-nose .38 revolver that I inherited from my paternal Grandfather. He was a Baptist preacher, and actually used it (without having to fire a shot) back in the great depression to disuade a guy that tried to rob the congregation.

Folks been robbing churches for a long, long time.

/johnny

[TheOldLady]

Boop Her Nose!

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