SAN DIEGO, CA. (THECOUNT) — Anna Conkey has been identified as the San Diego woman arrested after entering a church Easter Sunday while holding a gun and a baby.
Conkey, 31, was tackled by parishioners and arriving police officers at a Clairemont church service hosted at Mt. Everest Academy service while carrying a baby and a handgun on Easter Sunday.
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Police first received calls about an armed woman at a church service after witnesses said a woman stormed the pulpit through a back entrance, holding a gun in one hand and a young boy in the other.
Churchgoers said the woman was shouting incomprehensibly, making comments about “martyrs,” “the rapture” and blowing up the church. Members of the congregation eventually tackled the woman, police said, and officers arrived a short time later to take the woman into custody, reports FOX43.
Officers were seen walking out of the church with the 10-month-old boy in their arms. Police Lt. Christian Sharp said the woman’s second child, a 5-year-old girl, was found at a daycare center in Bonita. Both kids will be taken into protective custody and evaluated by Child Welfare Services, police said.
TheCount.com has learned, the suspect is a former digital producer for NBC 7 San Diego. The day before the outburst, Conkey took to Youtube to talk religion:
Conkey via Facebook: “For the idols speak delusion; the diviners envision lies, and tell false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore the people wend their way like sheep; they are in trouble because there is no shepherd.” Zech. 10:2″
No one, including Conkey, was injured in the incident. She was booked into jail on charges of “making criminal threats and displaying a handgun in a threatening manner.” The handgun had not been loaded, according to officers.
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Geo quick facts: Clairemont is a community within the city of San Diego, California, United States. It has a population of about 81,600 residents and an area of roughly 13.3 square miles – Wikipedia.