Off-duty Sacramento detective stops man with loaded handgun from entering church on Ash Wednesday

A person with a gun was detained while trying to get inside St. Mary’s Church in East Sacramento on Ash Wednesday.

Fortunately, no shots were fired, nothing escalated, and the 20-year-old man was disarmed thanks to the keen eye of an off-duty Sacramento detective.

“When I first saw the gun in his hand,… I knew it was not his because of the way he was holding it,” said church member Marissa Palombi, who had just attended a service at the church before everything unfolded…

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