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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Practitioners attacked a woman who entered a church in Clairemont on Sunday morning with a rifle and a baby, police said.
The incident occurred just after noon at 4350 Mt. Everest Blvd. at the church of Tsidkenu, a non-denominational church on Mt. Everest Academy.
According to the police, the woman, identified as Anna Conkey, 31, entered the church with a handgun and a 10-month-old baby.
"The woman went on stage and threatened to blow up the church by brandishing the handgun," San Diego police said in a press release.
"She said of the madness that the kidnapping is not real and that everyone is going to hell," recalled a witness.
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Conkey was reportedly attacked by worshipers and no one was injured. Photos taken outside the church show police officers carrying a young child away.
The gun was found and determined not to be loaded, the police said. A bomb unit searched the area but found no explosives.
Officers took the baby and Conkey's 5-year-old daughter, found during a follow-up investigation, to the child protection services. Both appeared to be healthy and unharmed, the police said.
The incident occurred as police stepped up patrols in San Diego churches Sunday after the attacks in Sri Lanka left more than 200 dead and hundreds wounded.
San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said in a tweet that the department had decided to step up patrols with "caution."
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Mt. Everest Academy is an independent school that serves students from kindergarten to grade 12.
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