Posted on 11/17/2023 5:21:42 AM PST by Red Badger
A congregation is in shock after a beloved religious leader was shot in the head while preaching on a Glendale street corner on Wednesday night. He has life-threatening injuries.
It happened on the northwest corner of 51st and Peoria Avenues around 6 p.m. Friends say Hans Schmidt was standing with a megaphone, preaching the gospel to people passing by, something he’d apparently done countless times before.
Only this time, someone pulled out a gun and shot him. Friends and family can’t understand why. “Who knows why someone would want to take it out on a preacher like that because he’s speaking the gospel and good news to everybody.
He’s out to help the community,” said Henry Branch, who lives nearby. Schmidt also helps lead weekly services at the Victory Chapel as the door director.
Paul Sanchez works nearby and said when Schmidt was out preaching, some people drove by screaming and cursing at him. “There was a lot of everything, really, hateful comments, people yelling at him, ‘get off the street,’ all sorts of mean things,” he said.
Sanchez never imagined things would escalate, especially since he says Schmidt never confronted anyone or responded to the mean comments.
Larry Dettman was at services at the church on Wednesday night when the pastor announced what happened. Minutes later, the pastor ran off the hospital to check on Schmidt.
“Out of nowhere how does this happen? There’s some real evil in this world, bunch of human junk in their life and they take it out on somebody else,” said Dettman.
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Sounds like some nut walking around on the streets. Likely someone with mental issues or a criminal background or both. It seems like a lot of these folks are just being “let go” from prison or are plea bargaining out despite the fact they have rap sheets a mile long.
This is the unfortunate result of what has happened to what was once a great country. The real sad part is we did it to ourselves.
No description of the perp. All you need to know.
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Google maps shows a very ordinary place, with the most important feature being a large, heavy trafficked intersection. One quarter of the land around it is empty desert. So I’m thinking a drive by shooting.
More of satan’s animals running loose in the world!
Wild times. We preach in our town in Arizona. This is a little close to home. The leftists think they will be able to control the chaos they are unleashing, but they are wrong.
“mental issues”....sure, what about our modern culture doesn’t drive young people toward mental health problems?
This person may well have thought the preacher is part of the (so called) “Christian Nationalist” movement to impose a “Christian theocracy”, so, being a good “anti-fascist” he killed the preacher in the name of being a “freedom fighter”.
It wouldn’t surprise me. This is the leftist type of narrative...Christian’s are just like the Taliban. Our culture pushes nothing but lies 24/7 and we wonder why there’s school shootings, massive increases in “trans” kids, etc. etc.
We should expect to see more.
Prayers for him, but why a megaphone? Reaching even one with natural voice is better than forcing a loud voice on a public street, kinda asking for trouble
This is a horrible crime, made all the more horrible by the fact that this happened in a supposed “Christian” nation. But mark my words, there will come a day when this type of behavior will be encouraged. After the Rapture of the Church and the last seven years the current age begins, wholesale slaughter of anyone who follows the teachings of Christ will become commonplace.
No description of the perp. All you need to know.
How can they describe someone when they don’t know who did it?
Someone saw the incident, you can bet on that.
Yep, you can’t tell me there isn’t a better description than “someone” unless they are trying to hide it.
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