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.

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.

  • @[email protected]
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    437 months ago

    You’re right of course. I let my anger get the better of me, and that’s not how you build a society.

    • @[email protected]
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      237 months ago

      That’s extremely fair - it’s difficult to remain level headed when people are threatened and, I’d argue, impossible, when it’s people you love or value.

      • Seraph
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        147 months ago

        Y’all make me so happy with interactions like this sometimes it almost outweighs how big of a POS the internet can be the rest of the time. Maybe there is hope!

        • @foggy
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          WELL EXCUSE ME WHILE I AGGRESSIVELY DISAGREE FOR NO REASON 😡

          Sorry, had to balance the tides.

    • SeaJ
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      Instead, focus that anger towards how they got the gun. I don’t want to assume but oftentimes a parent doesn’t lock up their gun. In cases like that, the parent should be charged.