- Trailer filled with Bibles had been discovered burned burned Easter Sunday in entrance of International Imaginative and prescient Bible Church in Wilson County.
- Police launch video of truck leaving the scene of the fireplace.
Center Tennessee authorities are in search of a “large four-door truck” that may be concerned in a fireplace earlier this yr that left a lot of Bibles burned in a utility trailer in Wilson County.
The incident occurred in entrance of International Imaginative and prescient Bible Church, led by Pastor Greg Locke on the intersection of Chandler and Outdated Lebanon Dust Roads, on Easter Sunday, based on the Wilson County Sheriff’s Workplace. Police had been known as round 6:30 a.m., earlier than that day’s church service.
No arrests within the case have been made.
Surveillance video supplied by the Wilson County Sheriff’s Workplace exhibits a truck that seems to be white or another mild coloration fleeing the world across the time of the fireplace, police mentioned.
Locke addressed the fireplace throughout International Imaginative and prescient’s Easter service. He estimated that about 200 Bibles had been burned. There have been no accidents, and International Imaginative and prescient had its Easter service as scheduled.
Police are persevering with to research and consider the fireplace was set deliberately.
International Imaginative and prescient has organized previous burning occasions that concerned supplies the church believes are related to witchcraft and the occult.
Locke mentioned he believes the fireplace that burned the Bibles was “100 percent directed at (Global Vision Bible Church).”
Money rewards will likely be thought of for data that results in the prosecution of these accountable within the case, officers mentioned. Anybody with data can report it to the Wilson County Sheriff’s Workplace Detective Division at 615-444-1459 or anonymously by visiting https://wcso95.org/crimestoppers/.
Attain Andy Humbles at [email protected] or 615-726-5939 and on X, previously referred to as Twitter @ AndyHumbles.
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