Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Nun At Church

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A man has been arrested and charged with a hate crime after he threatened to kill a nun as she prayed in a Prospect Heights church, the NYPD said.

Derrick Gadson, a 56-year-old Fort Greene man, was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment - hate crime long with criminal possession of a controlled substance in connection with the incident, which happened at Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, on Pacific Street between Vanderbilt and Underhill avenues.

Gadson allegedly walked into the church around 2:30 in the afternoon Wednesday as Maria Amador was praying. According to police, he told her "I don't believe in this because you don't help poor people," then said "I will kill you."

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