{"id":187292,"date":"2026-02-21T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:44:07","slug":"handwritten-notes-found-at-home-of-man-who-tried-to-bring-gun-into-sacramento-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187292\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwritten notes found at home of man who tried to bring gun into Sacramento church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handwritten notes reveal more about the man now facing federal and state charges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/sacramento-detective-stops-man-gun-church-ash-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for trying to get inside Ash Wednesday mass in Sacramento with a loaded gun.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new federal filing, prosecutors say  Brian Girardot Jr., 20, went to St. Mary&#8217;s Church in East Sacramento twice on the same day. The first time, he dropped his younger sibling off at school. The next, court documents say he was armed with a loaded handgun, additional ammunition, and a camouflage jacket.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0An off-duty Sacramento police detective, volunteering as a parent observer, saw Girardot trying to get inside the church during a school mass. The detective jumped into action before anyone could be hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Notes found in his possession referenced violence. Investigators found a stack of chilling handwritten notes inside his bedroom that included threats to several redacted names.<\/p>\n<p>One note, addressed to three relatives, said, &#8220;All of you are the reason I&#8217;ve done this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say those notes, along with other evidence, show Girardot was engaged in &#8220;preparations for a violent incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Girardot was arraigned in Sacramento County court on charges of having a concealed firearm on his person and bringing or possessing a firearm on school grounds. He is expected back in court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Handwritten notes reveal more about the man now facing federal and state charges for trying to get inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-187292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187292","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=187292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}