A 16-year-old male was taken into custody after police converged on Luther College High School in Regina, where a former student held a pastor at gunpoint in front of a terrified assembly of students who had gathered for chapel service.
Trista Gargol, a student at the independent school in Regina’s west end, told CBC News that the incident began around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday.
About 300 students were in the gym for the regular religious service.
Gargol said a youth approached the pastor leading the service and handed him a three-page letter, demanding that it be read or he would shoot him.
Apparentsly the youth was expelled last term from the school and is obviously begging for another chance. I think he needed to be heard but he went about it the wrong way. Maybe he thought this is the only way he could get his message across but there had to be a better way. Thank God matters did not get out of hand and no one was hurt.
