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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 10:03 PM Dec 2014

Prosecutor: No charges in church disturbance death

Source: Associated Press

Prosecutor: No charges in church disturbance death
| December 20, 2014 | Updated: December 20, 2014 3:26pm

INDIAN LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — Churchgoers won't face any charges in the death of an armed man they restrained after he caused a violent disturbance during an upstate New York service, according to prosecutors.

Jason's Berg's death, "although tragic, was not the result of criminal behavior," Hamilton County District Attorney Marsha Purdue said in a statement Friday.

Berg, 44, was drunk and carrying a loaded handgun in his pants waistband June 28 when he burst into St. Mary's Church in Indian Lake near the end of an afternoon Mass, with 35 people worshipping, prosecutors said.

The Rev. Philip Allen later recalled he had just risen and said, "Let us pray."

"And the shout back was, 'Pray for me!'" Allen told WRGB-TV last summer.

Berg then threw candles and other items into the congregation, cursed at the priest and advanced menacingly down the aisle toward him, according to prosecutors. A teenage altar server tried to tackle Berg, and then several parishioners in their 60s and 70s wrestled Berg to the floor. Berg struggled with them, and a churchgoer got his gun away from him, prosecutors said.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutor-No-charges-in-NY-church-disturbance-5970684.php

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Prosecutor: No charges in church disturbance death (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2014 OP
Shouldn't she be announcing awards for citizens who stepped up and saved people? jtuck004 Dec 2014 #1
Ummmmmm..... yes, especially since they were in their 60s and 70s. Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #2
 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
1. Shouldn't she be announcing awards for citizens who stepped up and saved people?
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 11:18 PM
Dec 2014

Charges? Seriously had to announce this?

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
2. Ummmmmm..... yes, especially since they were in their 60s and 70s.
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 11:40 PM
Dec 2014

Amazing that charging these folks even crossed his mind.

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