A Sunday church service was marred with violence when a brick-wielding man attacked the pastor who happened to have a gun on him. He shot the assailant multiple times, killing him.<\/p>\n
The incident happened about 15 minutes after the start of the 1:30 p.m. service at the City of God ministries storefront church, according to Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt. The attacker met the minister in the vestibule.<\/p>\n
The preacher, who was not named by Dolunt, responded by drawing a pistol and shooting the brick-wielding attacker multiple times.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew each other and had some type of problem before,\u201d<\/em> Dolunt said of the minister and the victim,\u00a0according<\/a> to the Detroit Free Press. \u201cWhen I got there, the body had already been moved. The pastor was in custody. We had the gun.”<\/em><\/p>\n The victim was identified as Deante Smith, and the minister remains in police custody.<\/p>\n A previous police report had been filed against Smith involving threats against the church as recently last month, according to Dolunt.<\/p>\n \u201cCan’t wait to see Sunday message at the City of God Ministry. I\u2019ll be there with the truth,\u201d<\/em> Two Detroit police sources said that detectives were investigating a possible love triangle between Smith, his wife and their pastor, according to Detroit News.<\/p>\n Weeks before the arriving at the church with a brick and being shot, Smith had made multiple posts on Facebook ranting that his minister had made his wife pregnant.<\/p>\n \u201cThat wasn\u2019t my baby that was (his wife) and pastor(\u2019s) baby,\u201d<\/em> he wrote on September 15, according to Detroit News. Later, on September 18, he said: \u201cThis (expletive) got my (expletive) pregnant. Tick tock (expletive) and everybody with you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Smith made several posts in the weeks leading up to his death related to the pain he was feeling about the alleged affair. \u201cI\u2019m hurting, yall,\u201d<\/em> he wrote on October 8, according to Detroit News.<\/p>\n In the wake of June\u2019s mass shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church, many Detroit pastors said they planned to increase security at their houses of worship. In July 2014 an off-duty Detroit police officer who was working as a church security guard shot and killed an ax-wielding man at the Citadel Praise of Church.<\/p>\n \u201cThinking far out about it, I do hope the church does not become a place where you have security like an airport…,\u201d<\/em> Detroit City Councilman Andre Spivey said, as cited by Detroit News.<\/p>\n \u201cMy concern is churches are becoming a place where you can no longer welcome people freely. And that shouldn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Sunday church service was marred with violence when a brick-wielding man attacked the pastor who happened to have a gun on him. He shot the assailant multiple times, killing him. The incident happened about 15 minutes after the start of the 1:30 p.m. service at the City of God ministries storefront church, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSmith wrote on his Facebook on September 16, according to Detroit News. \u201cThis (expletive) gonna hit the fan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n