A man pointed a gun and pulled the trigger inside a Pennsylvania church but the gun jammed and the pastor dove for cover. Reverend Glenn Germany of the Jesus Dwelling Place Church in Pittsburgh was conducting a Sunday church service when a man walked up to the altar rail and pointed a gun at the pastor.

Footage of the attack shows pastor Glenn Germany diving behind his lectern after a man approaches, raises his arm and aims a gun at Mr Germany. Police identified the gunman as 26-year-old Bernard Polite.

Clarence McCallister, a Pittsburgh heavy equipment specialist and deacon at Jesus' Dwelling Place Church, leaped from the pews to tackle a gunman who barged in Sunday.

A man who pulled a gun on a pastor at a Pennsylvania church Sunday has been charged with homicide after his cousin was found shot to death, police said.

The man accused of trying to shoot a pastor at a Pittsburgh-area church has been charged with homicide after another person was found shot to death at his home. Twenty-six-year-old Bernard Polite was charged with attempted homicide after police said he took aim at a pastor giving a sermon inside Jesus' Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock on Sunday afternoon.