Catholic priest once disgraced for theft killedÂ
An assailant has stabbed a priest, Rev. Stephen Gutgsell, to death in an early morning tragic break-in.
The motivation for the killing is unknown but law enforcements said they doubt it had anything to do with Gutgsell’s criminal pastÂ
The attacker broke into the victim’s rectory at Fort Calhoun, Nebraska’s St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in the United States, killing him.
The suspect, surprisingly, did not leave the crime scene until the police came.Â
Upon arrival, the police found Gutgsell injured and the suspected attacker, Kierre Williams, inside the rectory.Â
The police have charged the 43-years old Williams for culpable homicide.Â
Mirror is reporting Reverend Gutgsell, in 2007, admitted to embezzling £127,000 from a local church and was sentenced to probation.Â
He was later moved to another church where leaders said he had learned his lesson and sought forgiveness.
Earlier this year, his brother, the Rev. Michael Gutgsell, also admitted to theft charges.Â
He was the chancellor of the Omaha archdiocese from 1994 until 2003.
