Pastor Springs Into Action After Crazed Man Walks Up to the Altar, Pulls Gun on Shocked Congregants

A Tennessee pastor knew what to do when a man started threatening his congregation with a gun on Sunday. Pastor Ezekiel Ndikumana of the Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church tackled the man before any harm could…

IJR SyndicatedNov 9, 20213 min read

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Here’s a report from Nashville’s WTVF-TV:

Although some of those in the church began to run away as the incident began, others stayed to help disarm the gunman and keep him held down until police could arrive.

According to WKRN, police said that during the incident, Baganda told everyone in the church to get up.

Whatever else the gunman planned was forestalled by the pastor’s action. Ndikumana said he believed the gunman had a deadly purpose.

“He wanted to kill, that’s what first came to my mind,” Ndikumana told WKRN.

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Choir member Nzojibugami Noe told WKRN that when the incident started, the gunman “was standing in the front of almost everybody. No one was behind him yet, so he could have done anything.”

Ndikumana told WKRN that Baganda was not a member of the church. He had attended in the past and been told to leave because he interrupted during sermons.

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On this occasion, the station reported, Baganda had been at the church service peacefully from 10 a.m. until the incident took place at about 12:45 p.m.

According to WKRN, an arrest affidavit states that Baganda said he was Jesus and that all churches and schools should be targeted for shootings.

“God wanted to show that he’s a powerful God,” Ndikumana said. “One main thing I said, ‘We had faith.’”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.