By Michael Gryboski, Editor
A man who attempted to attack a Virginia church armed with a gun and about a knives has been convicted of a couple of counts and is going through on the least five years in jail, and even lifestyles.
A jury chanced on Rui Jiang responsible on Thursday of charges that embody making an try to hinder the congregants of a church in the free order of their beliefs, transmitting threats on-line and a firearms violation.
Jiang faces a necessary minimal of five years in jail, but may perhaps presumably perhaps additionally very smartly be sentenced to lifestyles. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 18, in step with the USA Division of Justice.
On Sept. 23, 2023, Jiang made a couple of threats of violence on social media against Park Valley Church of Falls Church. A Maryland resident observed these posts and alerted authorities.
On the morning of Sept. 24, 2023, a Sunday, an off-accountability police officer on the church found Jiang’s vehicle on the property, as did other contributors of the congregation.
Church contributors detained Jiang till authorities arrived. When arrested, Jiang became as soon as chanced on to be carrying a loaded legally purchased handgun, an additional ammunition magazine, and two knives.
In a assertion released on the time, Fairfax County police stated they and other police departments “acted abruptly” and, as a consequence, “were in a place to forestall a capability active shooter.”
“Since the arrest, detectives from our Threat Overview Management Unit were assigned to support with the investigation,” native authorities stated on the time. “TAM detectives assisted with the execution of a search warrant at Jiang’s dwelling. Proof supporting Jiang’s intent to motive harm became as soon as recovered from the scene.”
In December 2023, the Prince William County Police Division introduced that it became as soon as adding the rate of attempted aggravated execute to earlier charges of carrying a unhealthy weapon to a place of fancy and making threats of bodily harm.
“The extra rate against the accused […] stems from the continuing investigation and prognosis of digital proof got in the midst of the hunt warrant done at his contrivance in Falls Church,” authorities stated on the time.
“Primarily based fully upon the hot prognosis of the digital proof, physical proof restful on the time, and the social media postings on accounts dilapidated by the accused depicting the church with threatening language, indications were the accused intended to motive harm, harm, and death to the church congregation.”
Jiang became as soon as indicted in March of 2024, with investigators finding a display cowl that he had written to the families of his capability victims.
“To the families of those males about to be slain — I’m sorry for what I even have done and about to develop. May possibly perhaps additionally fair your tears no longer be cried in unnecessary, but to celebrate how your loved ones had lived,” read the letter in segment, as quoted by authorities.
Authorities also chanced on proof of anti-non secular sentiment, as considered with a whole lot of social media posts that Jiang had allegedly written sooner than the attempted mass shooting.
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