Janitor Fires Gun At Pastor In Church; Pastor Shoots Back
[su_right_ad]The Osceola, Florida church was the scene of a gun duel between a janitor and the pastor.
According to My Fox Orlando, Pastor Terry Howell met with janitor Benjamin Parangan at around 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, supposedly with the intention of terminating his employment at the Living Water Fellowship Church. During their meeting, Parangan allegedly pulled out a gun and began firing shots at Howell.
Howell then drew his own gun and fire back at Parangan, striking him. The pastor was uninjured. Both men, according to reports, had concealed weapons permits.
Parangan was taken to the Osceola Regional Medical Center in critical condition, and was later reported to be in stable condition. Several witnesses were in the church at the time of the shooting, as was a group of children at a childcare facility adjacent to the church.[su_csky_ad]
Anomaly 100 December 31st, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Yeehaw!
mea_mark December 31st, 2014 at 3:21 pm
Thank You GOP Jesus. Or is it just Florida?
rg9rts December 31st, 2014 at 5:03 pm
I’m sure Texas too
jasperjava December 31st, 2014 at 3:37 pm
This is the kind of society that the gun nuts want: a Wild West free-for-all where even minor disagreements are settled with bullets.
granpa.usthai December 31st, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Don’t blame the well armed UNREGULATED pulpit militia member for wanting to discontinue the employment of the well armed UNREGULATED building custodian militia member. Not safe having someone who is armed cleaning as it could possibly be dangerous to other well armed UNREGULATED militia persons on the religious building’s grounds. With as many accidental shootings that guns do in the US, it’s the smart thing to do. Fortunately no one had their gun taken out of their cold dead hands!
God Bless Florida!
usa usa usa
tiredoftea December 31st, 2014 at 4:04 pm
Need we point out it’s FLORIDA!!!! WTF???!!!!
StoneyCurtisll December 31st, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Nothing like a couple of responsible, law abiding concealed carry gun owners blasting away at each other inside a church..
I sure feel a lot safer..
Dont you??
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 31st, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Gunfights in churches…it’s the American way….by god!
Mike Butkus Jr. December 31st, 2014 at 4:26 pm
This is what you get when you preach fire and brimstone. It’s amazing to me, a man of God doesn’t feel safe in the House of the Lord. And the worker obviously didn’t feel the love, or receive it.
Abby Normal December 31st, 2014 at 4:32 pm
No wonder people around the world think Americans are insane. The idea of a pastor or any employee of a church carrying a gun on church property is just too insane to contemplate but it probably happens every day in this increasingly weird country we live in.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 31st, 2014 at 4:33 pm
Hey there good lookin’.
rg9rts December 31st, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Why did the pastor need a permit for a concealed weapon??? The weekly collection is so big?
Dwendt44 December 31st, 2014 at 7:45 pm
In case you didn’t give your full 10%.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 3:29 am
This part of the OP answers your question as to why the pastor needed a permit for a concealed weapon:
“… Pastor Terry Howell met with janitor Benjamin Parangan at around 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, supposedly with the intention of terminating his employment at the Living Water Fellowship Church. During their meeting, Parangan allegedly pulled out a gun and began firing shots at Howell. …”
Nothing in there about the collection.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 4:52 am
sarcasm wasted on you
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 6:46 am
yep
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 3:26 am
Au contraire.
In the case at hand, the pastor would have been shot and possibly killed if he didn’t have a gun – one properly permitted, by the way – to defend himself. Who knows if the shooting would have stopped once the pastor was killed?
rg9rts December 31st, 2014 at 5:01 pm
At last the perfect NRA world…everyone is armed and shootin
ExPFCWintergreen December 31st, 2014 at 7:07 pm
A reading from the Book of Remington, chapter 30, lines Ought to Six: And the Lord speaketh not, but droppeth the hammer upon the Evil-doers and followers of Custodian; and He emptieth His Mighty Magazine and as His Brass was ejected, there was much rejoicing in the heavens.
fancypants December 31st, 2014 at 8:49 pm
the pastor said to the custodian
you came here with a gun and good looks but your not leaving with both
granpa.usthai January 1st, 2015 at 2:35 am
-and now, for something entirely new and different:
what if this had been a Mosque and the shooters had been Muslim?
-or-
two Kristian Pastors of two different Kristian denominations?
street scene shootout at past high noon (JIC one of the windbags runs a little over ‘God’s allotted time’….
and – ACTION:
{this town ain’t big enough for both congregations pastor,
it’s your call reverend
when I finish Mat: 5-44!}
whatthe46 January 1st, 2015 at 3:02 am
WWJD?
mea_mark January 1st, 2015 at 9:56 am
Forgive them father for they know not what they do …
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 3:22 am
Good for the pastor.
He had to defend himself and fortunately, was a better shot than the bad guy.
One hopes Parangan will become a guest of the state, during which time he sees the errors of his ways while making little ones out of big ones.
Mephistophiles January 5th, 2015 at 6:27 am
‘I said HOLY communion, not HOLEY communion!..Dumbass!’