N.Y. bishop and wife robbed of around $1M in jewelry during livestreamed service
A Brooklyn bishop and his wife were robbed in the middle of a livestreamed service Sunday, with the assailants making off with as much as around $1 million worth of jewelry.
The armed assailants who robbed a Brooklyn bishop and his wife after storming a livestreamed service Sunday made off with $1 million worth of jewely, police said, after initially saying the value was believed to be around $400,000.
Bishop Lamor Whitehead was in the middle of delivering his sermon at the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries church in Canarsie when three gunmen burst in around 11:15 a.m., the NYPD said.
The armed assailants "displayed firearms and demanded property" from the 44-year-old bishop and his wife, 38, police said.
“When I see them come into the sanctuary with their guns, I told everybody to get out, everybody just get out,” Whitehead said in a video posted to Instagram following the incident. “I didn’t know if they wanted to shoot the church up or if they were just coming for a robbery.”
In the end, he said he was thankful that it was the latter, but said "they took all of my wife's jewelry and took all of my jewelry," including his wedding band.
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