Posted on 12/20/2014 7:43:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
Berg then threw candles and other items into the congregation, cursed at the priest and advanced menacingly down the aisle toward him, according to prosecutors. A teenage altar server tried to tackle Berg, and then several parishioners in their 60s and 70s wrestled Berg to the floor. Berg struggled with them, and a churchgoer got his gun away from him, prosecutors said.
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An autopsy concluded that Berg's cause of death was heart arrhythmia brought on by an acute stress reaction, with "acute alcohol intoxication" as a factor — his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit for driving.
Police found three empty, 23.5-ounce cans of a caffeine-and-alcohol drink at his home, drinks he was seen on security video buying about three hours before the church outburst, prosecutors said.
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why in the world would there be charges in that, sounds like an obvious case of self-defense to me
Well, we don’t know the color of his skin or the color of the churchgoers’ skin.
I wonder if there there any official complaints about his death, or if they were they just going through the motions to cross all the “T’s”, dot all the “I’s” and close the case?
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