WUSA-TV Washington, D.C. Posted: December 27, 2024 | Last updated: December 27, 2024 Officers were called to Holy Angels Catholic Church shortly after 5 p.m. after Thomas Von Goetz assaulted ...

accused of impeding the service by dumping whiskey into the holy water and threatening to hurt attendees, deputies said. As church attendees were removing the man from the building, he tried to ...

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Later that night, during midnight mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Von Goetz allegedly disrupted the service by pouring whiskey into the holy water and threatening to harm parishioners.