[gorush]

Was the suspected copper thief actually a copper thief or misidentified as such?

[Bratch]

Was it just copper?

Since it was a church, maybe it was a copper clapper caper.

[piasa]

He was probably a copper thief- churches down here in FL have been plagued by people destroying air conditioners just to get at the copper tubing.

Thieves destroyed two of our church’s brand new AC units worth several thousand bucks just to make a little on the stolen copper. They hit a bunch of churches over a few days in two or three counties.

[BBell]

He admitted to shooting 51-year-old Rodney Mitchell twice in the head on Aug. 27, 2014. The pastor said he caught Mitchell and Mitchell's 35-year-old nephew, Joseph Cross, dismantling and stealing copper tubing from air conditioner units between his Greater Morning Star Baptist Church and an adjacent snowball stand he owns in the 1200 block of Vallette Street.