A church service in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, was upended Sunday when a man pulled a gun on the pastor in the middle of his sermon.
NORTH BRADDOCK, Pa. -- The incident was caught on video. Pennsylvania State Police have charged 26-year-old Bernard Polite of Braddock, saying he entered and attempted to shoot Pastor Glenn Germany while the pastor was delivering a sermon at Jesus' Dwelling Place Church on Sunday just after 1 p.m. Video taken by the church's deacon and posted online by Pastor Glenn Germany shows the moment the pastor suddenly found himself staring down the barrel of a gun.
Polite apologized to Germany, he said. Germany forgave him, but says he hasn't processed what happened.'The thing that hurts me the most and brings tears to my eyes because I couldn't watch my daughter break down,' he said. His 14-year-old daughter was sitting among the pews during the service. 'I still had to be strong, because I had to be strong for her, but I couldn't take it, and just seeing her, that's the part that's hard for me to digest,' Germany said.
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