Winnipeg man charged after attempted knife attack on church pastor

A antheral is facing aggregate charges aft it’s alleged helium tried to onslaught a pastor with a weapon during a Sunday evening service.

Winnipeg constabulary said they received a study of a antheral disrupting a religion work successful the city’s northbound extremity astatine astir 6 p.m.

Police allege the 50-year-old antheral charged toward a pastor astatine the altar with a knife.

They said successful a quality merchandise Monday that the 38-year-old pastor “managed to flight unharmed.”

Police said Pawel Olownia is facing 3 charges, including battle with a limb and possession of a weapon.

A video of the alleged onslaught reportedly recorded connected the church’s livestream work is circulating connected societal media.

It begins with a pastor astatine the Holy Ghost Parish singing a hymn adjacent an altar.

Then a antheral successful a yellowish overgarment is seen charging astatine him.

When the antheral gets adjacent to the pastor, helium tries to drawback him with his near manus arsenic helium raises his close manus successful the air, with his fingers gripped astir what appears to beryllium a knife.

The video shows the pastor screaming, dodging the man’s manus and moving away.

The antheral past stops, turns astir and stabs the weapon onto the altar.

He walks implicit to a adjacent reddish seat and sits down portion a ample transverse hangs implicit him nether an arch.

Another antheral is past seen walking toward the altar, identifying himself arsenic an serviceman and telling the antheral he’s nether arrest.

Several different congregants besides attack the antheral successful the video arsenic the self-proclaimed serviceman grabs the antheral and pulls his arms down his back.

The pastor successful the video watches the apprehension nearby.