Churchgoers tackle a Navy veteran mother, 31, to the ground after she walked into an Easter service holding her 10-month-old son and a gun and started ranting about the rapture on stage
A woman identified as Anna Conkey, 31, reportedly stormed into the church
Parishioners at the Tsidkenu Church in San Diego then tackled her to the ground
She was reportedly carrying a handgun and her ten-month-old son in her arms
Conkey has ranted on YouTube and Facebook that Jesus is a ‘liar’
By GEORGE MARTIN
DAILYMAIL.COM
22 April 2019
Churchgoers tackled a Navy veteran to the ground after she walked into an Easter service holding a gun and her baby son, and threatened to blow the building up.
Anna Conkey stormed into the Tsidkenu Church in the Clairemont area of San Diego on Sunday while waving the handgun around, police say.
The 31-year-old then walked onto the stage and started talking about the rapture while grasping the 10-month-old boy.
Terrified onlookers bravely stepped in and tackled Conkey to the ground before officers arrived on the scene to arrest her.
Conkey, who also worked as a journalist for NBC 7 San Diego, has ranted in YouTube videos and on Facebook posts that Jesus is a ‘liar’ and the Bible is a ‘trap’.
‘The female walked up on stage and made threats that she was going to blow up the church while waving the handgun,’ San Diego Police said in a news release.
Fortunately no-one was injured in the incident and photos showed officers taking the the child Conkey was carrying to safety.
After examining the handgun police found it was unloaded and bomb specialists could not find any trace of explosives after a sweep of the complex.
‘She was saying craziness about the rapture not being real, and everyone going to hell,’ one witness recalled.
Conkey is a former journalism and creative writing major at San Diego State University.
In recent years she also reportedly served as a digital media producer at NBC 7 San Diego and in the United States Navy.
Conkey posted hour-long videos to a YouTube channel in which she claimed there was ‘great deception’ happening in churches and synagogues.
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