A crazed gunman lit up the property of Global Vision Bible Church pastor Greg Locke’s home Tuesday evening, unloading an entire magazine of bullets into his garage, car, and home while one of his children was inside in what was an apparent attempt to murder Locke and his family. Locke shared on social media:
It’s 2:00am and for the last 3 hours our home has been a full blown crime scene. According to the security cam footage, we pulled into our driveway exactly ONE MINUTE after a madman unloaded an entire magazine of bullets from an automatic weapon into our house, garage and my truck. The sound on the video is truly horrific. Detectives will still be here for a good while tonight.
Only one of our kids was home and thank God not in the same area of the house. As you can see in the last pics, one of the bullets cut through the headboard of our youngest daughter’s bed and lodged in her pillow. We are all being security escorted to a hotel tonight. We have no further details. The only detail that matters is that Psalm 91 is true and GOD PROTECTED US IN UNIMAGINABLE AND SUPERNATURAL WAYS. Please pray for the Locke family tonight. We love all of you.
He added later:
Wilson County Sheriff’s Office Captain Scott Moore confirmed the details to the Tennessean, revealing that 30-40 shall casings were recovered from the property.
Locke is no stranger to death threats and receives them on a regular basis. He previously share the extent they have to grapple with this:
We get hundreds and hundreds, many times 1000s of phone calls every week. The voicemail will only hold 40 voicemails at a time and we can be on the phone and the voicemails will filll about every two hours.
And so many of them are like non-callback numbers, private numbers, people cussing, fussing. We just located a man the other day, he doesn’t even know that we’ve located him yet but we have, that called the church, left a burner phone number, but we’ve got some pretty good investigative abilities at our church. And this guy has promised to come to the tent and slice my throat and to kill me.
We’ve been getting literally sex toys in the mail every single day, glitter bombs from witches. Everybody’s mad about the thing I said about calling out witches. They’re real. They know they’re real. They’re not hiding the fact that they’re real. It’s just the churches is too unbiblical and ignorant to recognize witchcraft, sorcery and spells and curses when they see them.
We literally got a box the other day that said it was from my mom, and it was full of all kinds of crystals and hexes and vexes and curses. We get pentagrams, witchcraft, satanism, postcards from the Church of Satan in the mail every single day, all types of vile pornographic stuff. It’s just nonstop phone calls galore…you know, threatening to come and kill me just all sorts of nonsense.”
This appears to be the first incident where threats have escalated into direct action. It is unclear what the motives for the attack were, though Locke, who was recently announced and installed as an ‘apostle‘, has long since insisted that witches and warlocks were seeking to destroy him and his church.
He has also been very outspoken in his support for Israel, with many on social media questioning if that has something to do with it, on account of at least one threat made public:
Notably, six months ago, a man drove up with a trailer outside Global Vision Church and set a trailer full of Bibles on fire, though it is unknown if the two incidences are related.
