SULPHUR — A Sulphur man has been arrested and charged with hate crimes, two counts of burglary of a religious building and two counts of felony criminal damage to a religious building after allegedly vandalizing four area churches.
Police Chief Lewis Coats said it appears that Daniel Wayne Duplechin started at Our Lady of Prompt Succor where he broke in through a glass door on the east side of the building and began obliterated several statues with a sledge hammer.
Ralph Sonnier, a parishioner at Prompt Succor, said some parishioners had seen Duplechin at the church praying on Friday.
“He was here praying and then he got up and started doing crazy stuff and then he left,” Sonnier said.
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Pastor Edward Richard said some of the statues destroyed are more than 100 years old.
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