Seneka:
Officials said on Friday that a person from Oklahoma has been accused of first-degree murder in a fatal shooting of a Catholic priest in a church rectory in Northeast Kansas.
The office of Nemaha County Sheriff said in a Facebook post that from Thursday afternoon, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church found a gun tablet in Seneka from Thursday afternoon. The 57 -year -old priest was rushed to a hospital by an ambulance, where he died.
The duties and officials of Sheriff along with Seneca Police Department arrested Gary Hermesh of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hermesh, 66, was accused on Friday and was held in exchange for a $ 1 million bond at Nemaha County Jail, County Attorney Brad Lipart said in a written statement on Friday.
The charging complaint stated that Harmashe “deliberately and with the preceding killed” Karasala “, Lipt said. Lippert did not return the phone and email message on Friday and received more information.
Authorities have not released a possible purpose for shooting or said whether suspects and priests know each other.
Parish Director of Religious Education Chris Anderson told AP through tears on Thursday that she knew some details.
He said, “An old man (Karsala) went to what we know and shot him three times,” he said.
The priest’s death released people in Seneka in shock, a city of about 2,100 where Karasala was a priest in Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church since 2011, according to the profile on the website of saints.
Karasala was held in 1994 as a priest for Kudpa’s province on the south -beauty of its original India. He served in Kansas since 2004, in which Archbishop James P. Five Kansas was included as the pastor of Parash after being invited by Keleheri to travel. Carsala became an American citizen in 2011, while retaining his status as a foreign national from India.
Joseph Naaman, Archbishop of Archdoyi of Canasus City in Canasus, said in a Facebook post that there was no threat to the community, but he recognized “pain and shock” that the priest’s death was brought to the community.
He wrote, “This insensitive work of violence has given us the loss of a beloved priest, leader and friend.”
There is about 60 miles (97 km) north of Seneka Topecka, about 90 miles (145 km) in the north -west of Canus City and about 300 miles (480 km) to the north of Tulsa.
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