AT LEAST ONE ALBUQUERQUE CHURCH HAS SECURITY MEASURES IN PLACE TO PREVENT A FATAL SHOOTING SIMILAR TO WHAT HAPPENED AT A CHARLESTON CHURCH THIS WEEK. AND KOB TV REPORTS THOSE MEASURES WERE PUT IN PLACE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO.
SCOTT BAIRD, ONE OF THE SECURITY DIRECTORS, SAYS IT WAS IMPLEMENTED AT A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. HE TELLS KOB TV HE’D LIKE TO SEE ARMED OFFICERS AT OTHER CHURCHES HERE AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
CHURCH VIOLENCE IS NOT UNHEARD OF IN NEW MEXICO … OR IN ABQ. IN 2013, FOUR PEOPLE WERE INJURED WHEN LAWRENCE CAPENER STABBED THEM DURING SUNDAY MASS AT ST. JUDGE THADDEUS CATHOLIC CHURCH.
