Cop marks evidence at base of headless statue.
Posted on 07/19/2005 7:12:15 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Cops are shot at church
2 officers catch Qns. madman defacing statue of Virgin Mary and her mother
BY NANCY DILLON, ALISON GENDAR and DAVE GOLDINER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A shotgun and sword-wielding madman wounded two cops at close range yesterday after they caught him blasting the head off a century-old statue of St. Anne and the Virgin Mary outside a Queens church.
One officer was hit in the head and the other in the leg by shrapnel from police hater Kevin Davy's shotgun. But at least one of the cops managed to return fire and end the 2 a.m. spree outside Saints Joachim and Anne Church in Queens Village.
"I'm a hustler! I'm a warrior!" ranted Davy, 25, who used a sword to lop off the granite statue's arms and blew the head off with a 12-gauge shotgun before ambushing the police from less than 8 feet away....
Davy, who was in critical but stable condition at Mary Immaculate Hospital, suffers from bipolar disorder and apparently nursed a potent hatred for Christianity, the police and other institutions, officials and relatives said....
First, he took the sword and started hacking at the arms of the 107-year-old statue, which depicts St. Anne and her daughter, the Virgin Mary, as a child holding a Bible.
When his sword failed to destroy the icon, he went back to his home to fetch a pump-action shotgun, returned and opened fire, blowing St. Anne's head into nearby bushes, cops said....
At the church, the Rev. Joseph Malagreca clutched the head of the $10,000 statue outside the rectory and prepared to tell his flock about the hateful mayhem at Sunday Mass.
"It's just sad," the pastor said. "He has a psychological problem with religion."
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I would suspect it's more than just a "psychological problem," Father. This took place early in the morning on the 17th, which is not just the Lord's Day, but also the first day for a novena in anticipation of the feast day of St. Ann.
In related news, later the same morning, a vandal struck at my own parish in Washington, DC. We have an "outdoor" shrine to Our Lady, which is inside an alcove at the side door the church. Any candles that are lit from inside the church are placed out there. The vandal knocked over all of the candles, and scrawled a threatening message inside the alcove. Thankfully, the candles were put out when he smashed them, and didn't start a fire, which was completely possible.
"Davy, who was in critical but stable condition"
I beg to differ.
Sounds to be like this guy has simply been watching too much BBC and MSN.
Catholic ping!
Stable, in the sense of his physical health condition, not his mental health. ;-)
Does anyone else see the irony of the christian hater in a Catholic hospital?
And the irony of the this nutjob being treated at a Catholic hospital...
One might wonder how they arrived at such a conclusion. ;O)
LOL!
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm more inclined to think this is a case of demonic possession than a psychological disorder.
Seems more like a demonic problem to me. Too many Catholics are far to influenced by Psychobabble. However, Psychological problems are ultimately caused by demonic oppression.
Exactly. See my comment that leads the thread.
later pingout.
"It's just sad," the pastor said. "He has a psychological problem with religion."
This pastor has a problem, and suffers from Too Much Psychology Syndrome.
It has infected the American Church since at least the 1960's.
Instead of trying to explain away this atrocity with the latest psychobabble, he should ask his entire congregation to kneel, and pray the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel.
Keith Davy said he understood "thelogic involved" in the attack on the police, whom he branded as "devilish." He also ridiculed the "white" religious statue.
Ah! No wonder everybody's tiptoeing around and making excuses. It's a racial thing. Don't want to be makin' nobody mad. It's a hot summer.
I am so blessed to be at a parish that continues the tradition of the Prayer to St. Michael at the end of every Holy Mass.
It's getting rough out there.
It's actually kind of refreshing. Most people that hate the Church that much just keep doing their anchor man jobs or hollywood acting jobs or their public school teaching and administrating jobs.
I wonder what his DU screen name is.
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