{"id":184301,"date":"2026-02-19T08:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184301\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:19:20","slug":"off-duty-sacramento-detective-removes-gun-from-individual-attempting-to-enter-ash-wednesday-school-mass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184301\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Sacramento detective removes gun from individual attempting to enter Ash Wednesday school mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Sacramento police detective attending an Ash Wednesday Mass intervened after discovering an armed individual trying to enter a church on a school campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Sacramento Police Department, the detective was off duty and serving as a parent observer at St. Mary Parish School on the 1300 block of 58th Street. Police said the church and school share the same campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the service, the detective noticed someone approach the church and request entry. After speaking with the individual, the detective located a handgun and removed it, authorities said. He then detained the person until on-duty officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police identified the suspect as 20-year-old Brian Girardot of Sacramento. He was booked on a felony charge of possession of a firearm at a school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WATCH MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GH7eyNE5QGU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Three men hit by pickup truck on Highway 50;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Three men hit by pickup truck on Highway 50<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento police detective attending an Ash Wednesday Mass intervened after discovering an armed individual trying to enter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[86967,121,123,122,9113,32524,86966],"class_list":["post-184301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-police-detective","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police-department","tag-school-campus","tag-st-mary-parish-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}