A Tennessee pastor was not going to allow his holy service to end with holes in his service.  

Ezekiel Ndikumana, the pastor of Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church, was the savior of his flock when he stopped Dezire Baganda, 26, who pulled out a gun at the church altar.  

According to a statement by the church, Baganda told everyone to get up while he waved and pointed the handgun at the congregation. Ndikumana then put the fear of God into Baganda by tackling him hard to the ground.  

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“He wanted to kill, that’s what first came to mind,” Ndikumana said through a translator, church choir member Nzojibugami Noe, who was sitting in a front pew during the incident.  

“He was standing in the front of almost everybody,” Noe said. “No one was behind him yet, so he could have done anything.”  

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No shots were fired. Church members rushed to aid their pastor by disarming Baganda and holding him to the ground until police arrived at the church  

Baganda was not a member of the church, but the pastor said he does remember seeing the man at the church in previous services.  

Baganda is charged with 15 counts of felony aggravated assault. 

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“I would say that God used me because I felt like I was going to use the back door as an example as going on by trying to go behind him,” Ndikumana said. “And then I felt the feeling that I would go and grab him … and that’s what happened.”