NY bishop and wife robbed in $400K jewelry heist during live sermon
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Bishop Lamor Whitehead was livestreaming his service when three armed robbers burst into the church.
Armed robbers made off with around US$400,000 worth of jewelry after storming into a church during a live-streamed service and shaking down the bishop and his wife, police said.
Bishop Lamor Whitehead was about 10 minutes into his sermon when three gunmen entered the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries church in Brooklyn, N.Y., at around 11:15 a.m. and “displayed firearms and demanded property,” according to the New York Police Department.
The livestream of the incident shows the moment Whitehead noticed the men entering the church and dropped to the ground behind his lectern.
“I said, ‘All right, all right, all right,’ pretty much stating that I’m not going to do anything because I know you’re coming for me,” Whitehead, 44, said in an interview with CBS News. “You’re coming straight to me. I don’t want my parishioners hurt. I’ve got women and children there.”
“As I got down, one went to my wife and took all her jewelry and had the gun in front of my eight-month-old baby’s face. Took off my bishop’s ring, my wedding band and took off my bishop’s chain, and then I had chains underneath my robe and he started tapping my neck to see if anything else. So that means they knew. They watched and they knew that I had other jewelry,” he recounted.
The church livestream showed a masked man get up on stage and point a gun at the pastor.
What the livestream didn’t show, Whitehead told CBS, is the around 100 parishioners who were there for the Sunday service. The pastor said that dozens of men, women, and children all dropped to the floor in silence.
“They had guns on my deacons that was at the door,” Whitehead added.
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