A man with a knife started shouting about “fake preachers” when he got up out of the pew and stabbed four people at a Roman Catholic church in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Police told the Albuquerque Journal newspaper that two of the victims at St. Jude Thaddeus Parish were critically injured.

It happened as the church service was closing.  The choir had commenced the closing hymns when a man in his twenties man jumped over several pews, walked quickly to the front of the church and began stabbing choir members.

“While that was going on, people were just panicking. It was scary, you wouldn’t think something like that would happen in church,” said another witness, 18 year old Reyes Stinson.

Several people quickly jumped on the suspect and pinned him down until police arrived and placed him into custody.

Another teenaged parishioner told newspapers that the suspect had an upside-down star tattooed on his wrist and went on about “the Masons” after he was handcuffed.