"You can hear the gun click": Pastor thanks God after gunman fails to shoot during livestream sermon

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A pastor in the small Pennsylvania borough of North Braddock is speaking out after narrowly avoiding death on Monday, after he was held at gunpoint during a livestreamed sermon.

Glenn Germany was finishing his closing message when 26-year-old Bernard Polite got up from his seat, walked closer to the pastor and raised a gun to his head. Germany jumped out of the way, while a member of the church, deacon Clarence McCallister, rushed to the altar to tackle the assailant.

“He got up, when I started to speak the message, and he smiled at me,” Germany told reporters after the incident, adding that he has never encountered the suspect before.

Polite was arrested at the church after being disarmed. Allegheny County police said he lives near the Jesus' Dwelling Place Church, in a home where authorities discovered the body of 56-year-old Derek Polite. Police have not yet specified the relationship between the two men.

"You can hear the gun click, he shot," said a tearful Germany as he recounted the terrifying ordeal, while thanking God for saving him.

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