re: Shooting threat at First Communion Mass in Abbeville St Mary Magdalen

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I'm not saying I 100% buy his story as well, but if he was there to shoot up the church, how was he "stopped" when he saw a woman and 2 kids?

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Apparently a detail of what I heard yesterday was off. He walked up to the church, set the rifle against the exterior wall of the church, then walked inside and went into the cry room where the woman was. Someone outside saw what he did and asked for another dad who was outside of the church to take the gun. That dad took the gun and brought it away from where it was initially placed. The kid stayed in the cry room for a short period (less than a minute is what I was told), and then he walked back outside of the church (presumably to go get the rifle). Well, when he walked outside someone locked the door behind him and his rifle was no longer where he placed it. I think at that point he realized whatever his plan was was no longer going to happen.

Obviously making an assumption, but it seems to me like maybe he wanted to get a visual on what he was walking into before shite went down, so he went in without the gun to scope out the scene and then was going back outside to grab it.

I don’t buy the kidnapping story unless they have some sort of hard evidence of that (texts, etc…)