Thank God For Faithful Deacons Who Love the Lord and Their Pastor! Someone Said Most Deacons on the Deacon Board Need the Board Put on Them, and They Were Right, But That’s Not the Case With Deacon Clarence McCallister, Who Tackled an Armed Man Who Tried to Kill His Pastor in a Pennsylvania Church
Thank God For Faithful Deacons Who Love the Lord and Their Pastor! Someone Said Most Deacons on the Deacon Board Need the Board Put on Them, and They Were Right, But That’s Not the Case With Deacon Clarence McCallister, Who Tackled an Armed Man Who Tried to Kill His Pastor in a Pennsylvania Church
Clarence McCallister, the deacon who tackled an armed man in a North Braddock, Pennsylvania, church Sunday, explained his actions by saying, “My Pastor’s life was in danger.”
FOX News quoted McCallister commenting on his motivations, noting that he was operating the camera the church used to record the sermon when the gunman attempted to shoot Pastor Glenn Germany.
McCallister said, “I heard it click, and I thought, ‘Oh, my God, thank God that gun jammed.’” McCallister then sprinted toward the gunman, identified as 26-year-old Bernard Polite, tackling and subduing him.
WTAE reported that police subsequently searched Polite’s residence, where they found the body of Derek Polite. Police believe Derek was shot and killed just hours before Bernard went to the church where he was tackled after his gun jammed.
ABC News noted that Derek was Bernard’s 56-year-old cousin.
Bernard has been charged with homicide in connection with his cousin’s death and allegedly confessed to wanting to kill the pastor because “God told him to do it.”