Man Arrested In New Jersey Church Shooting

Police Say He Drove From Calif. Killed Estranged Wife, Bystander Then Fled To Georgia

(AP)  A man accused of driving across the United States and fatally shooting his estranged Indian immigrant wife and another man inside a church has been captured in Georgia.

Joseph M. Pallipurath was arrested around midnight Monday in Monroe, east of Atlanta, said New Jersey district U.S. Marshal James Plousis.

Pallipurath, of Sacramento, California, is suspected of shooting and killing 24-year-old Reshma James inside the St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church in Clifton, New Jersey, a suburb about 15 miles west of Manhattan.

Also killed was Dennis John Mallosseril, who maintained the church's Web site. Witnesses said he had tried to intervene and break up the church rampage.

A third person, James' cousin, Silvy Perincheril, was shot in the head and was hospitalized in critical condition. James had taken out a restraining order against Pallipurath, prosecutors said.

In California, the suspect's father had called on him to surrender, as did relatives of one of the victims in New Jersey.

All three victims were shot once in the head and didn't regain consciousness, depriving investigators of the opportunity to interview them. James died at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, and Mallosseril died three hours later.

The search for Pallipurath had centered on Georgia, where he has relatives, prosecutors said.

Pallipurath is accused of opening fire Sunday just as the congregation at the largely Indian immigrant church was finishing its prayers for the dead, a staple of weekly worship service. Authorities say he fired more than three times but only three people were hit. No one else was injured.

After fleeing three months ago from what relatives said was an abusive, arranged marriage in California, James moved to New Jersey and stayed with Perincheril.

The couple were married just over a year ago in India and moved to Sacramento in January.

Reshma's aunt Maria Joseph, of Hartford, Connecticut, said she warned her niece, who was studying to become a nurse, not to marry him. Other relatives told her the man had a history of "behavioral problems," Joseph said.

Mathai Pallipurath, the suspect's father, said he thought his son and daughter-in-law were happy together, and he described his son as "handsome" and "a nice guy."

According to a published report, however, the elder Pallipurath was granted a restraining order against his son in May. The father said Joseph was abusive to family members and had threatened his life.

In the story posted on its Web site Monday, The Sacramento Bee, citing family court records, said the restraining order was dropped at Mathai Pallipurath's request on June 17. Mathai Pallipurath was not available later Monday to comment on the report. A man who answered the phone at the family's Sacramento home Monday evening said he did not wish to speak further.

The shootings have reverberated throughout the Knanaya faith, a close-knit Christian minority in India who are even closer-knit in the United States.

The parish priest, Rev. Thomas Abraham, said he heard a loud noise and thought something had fallen in the church. He got up to go toward the noise, only to be hit with a wave of parishioners pushing him backward, saying someone was shooting inside the sanctuary.

He said church members were in shock.

"They're all scared; they're all really upset," he said. "We have to hold together in this time of adversity."

[juwboy]

These so-called "honor killings" are a daily occurrence among Indian immigrant families all over Europe.

It makes absolutely no difference if they are Hindus, Moslems or Christians.

The problem is so widespread that many police departments in Europe have set up special units to deal with it.

[nabaig]

"Trying to keep these people straight"
"These so-called "honor killings" are a daily occurrence among Indian immigrant families"

-- These statements are atrocious. Indicates a senese of moral superiority that you never have in the first place.

As though no western man/woman has killed his/her spouse before in history.

Who the heck has given you the duty of keeping other people straight.

Western civilization (capitalism, way of life, heterosexual families) is going down! And I am not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Stop your preaching first!

[juwboy]

Under the Islamic doctrine of Al-Taqqiyeh, lying to infidels isn''t a sin, it''s a virtue.

nabaig, whatever your religion is, you are operating under the doctrine of Al-Taqqiyeh.

[gramto8]

This wasn''t an ''honor killing'' or anything that had to do with religion or country of origin. This was your good old ''If I can''t have you, ain''t nobody going to have you!'' killings. He decided to take out the people that assisted his estranged wife in leaving him while he was at it.

[displeased]

"Trying to keep these people straight"
"These so-called "honor killings" are a daily occurrence among Indian immigrant families"

-- These statements are atrocious. Indicates a senese of moral superiority that you never have in the first place.
As though no western man/woman has killed his/her spouse before in history.
Who the heck has given you the duty of keeping other people straight.
Posted by nabaig


Society does.

[rrozsa-2009]

to nabaig -- DeckardBR was referring to the similarity of the various people''s names in the story. Pallipurath, Perincheril, Mallosserill -- it is difficult for most of us Westerners to keep their names straight in our minds and remember who is who when reading the article. Calm down and don''t get your panties in such a wad over it...

[misogynist10]

You would think the 100 mg of Zoloft would have calmed him down some. Marrying an angry man can be a fatal error.

[guysdigdirt]

Oh please. Had the church goers been armed, it''''s far more likely that one or more of them would have removed themselves from the gene pool by earning a Darwin Award.

You gun nuts are too scary to be funny.
Posted by Centerfall94

One more uneducated mornon who will pop-off before understanding the whole scope of truth.

When criinals are the only ones with guns, then things will become truly scary.

[guysdigdirt]

Trying to keep these people straight makes my head hurt.
Posted by DeckardBR

These statements are atrocious. Indicates a senese of moral superiority that you never have in the first place.

As though no western man/woman has killed his/her spouse before in history.

Who the heck has given you the duty of keeping other people straight.

Western civilization (capitalism, way of life, heterosexual families) is going down! And I am not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Stop your preaching first!
Posted by nabaig

Get a hold of yourself. Deckard was just saying it was hard to keep straight who did what and who was who in the story. With so many names that are unusual names to this society he was saying it was hard to keep them all straight.

No superiority illusions on his side. Your remarks however made you sound to be pretty self-centered and high and mighty.

[guysdigdirt]

Despite what anti-gun zombies think, guns in the hands of good men and women save more lives than are taken by bad men.

2 million times a year firearms are used by Americans legally in self defense.

When seconds count, the police are minutes away.

Do not rely on the gov''t to save you, be self reliant, it is YOUR responsibility to protect and defend yourself, your family and your community.

FACT: Crime goes down in areas where there is increased firearms ownership and concealed carry.

Posted by truthrocks1

All true and you put it well.

[displeased]

Borrow a little bit of courage from your wife and fight him like a man!
Posted by truthrocks

Easier said than done. How would you know the person breaking down your door in the middle of the night is unarmed?

[truthrocks1]

Why? In most cases citizens defending themselves with firearms do so against unarmed criminals. Borrow a little bit of courage from your wife and fight him like a man!~ Or let her take care of him since you can''''t without a gun!~



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Posted by truthrocks





You are a moron. The DOJ has reports (available online) that show positive trends in the reduction of crime in coralation with the increased presence of firearms.

An armed America is a safer America.

Try and form opinions based on fact and experience (which you have demonstrated none BTW) rather than simply clicking copy/paste on the wonderfully slanted Brady Campaign to kill innocent victims website.

Should this woman have borrowed courage and beat up her husband?

You libtards are amazingly stupid, which is why thinking americans will ALWAYS BE ARMED, and there is nothing you can do about it.

LOLOLOL HAHAAHHAHA

[truthrocks1]

Nearly every year there are about 10,000 murders in the U.S. about 1600 involve a criminal using a firearm against their victim.

In the U.S. armed men and women exercising their birth right as Americans to keep and bear arms use a firearm

2 MILLION TIMES A YEAR IN LEGAL SELF DEFENSE!


Defending your life, the lives of your children and neighbors is your duty as Americans.

If the anti-gun zombies want to curl up and allow their wives to be raped and murdered at the hands of criminals people like them put back on the street then so be it.

Do not allow their policy of death cause your family to be raped and murdered.

Brady Campaign, Handgun Control Inc., and the Million Mom March have the blood of innocent women and children on their hands.


Self preservation is a God given right, would you ask an 82 year old woman to muster courage and fight her attackers with her fists?

Anti-gun logic kills.

[displeased]

Displeased said "Easier said than done. How would you know the person breaking down your door in the middle of the night is unarmed?"

By using stats that said they are mostly unarmed and guns at home increase the chances of death in your family more than any criminal!~
Posted by truthrocks

I''m not going to rely on stats to assume somebody breaking in my house is unarmed. I don''t recommend anybody else doing it either.

[truthrocks1]

HAHAHA

Truthrocks has anti-gun propaganda and inaccurate statistics that the Brady Bunch and HCI made up, I''m sure she can defend herself with those.

[truthrocks1]

"Actually, their studies said that areas with more households with guns have more homicides and suicides!"

Actually it was the CDC, and the numbers they posted have been mis-represented by anti-gun zombies.

If youre cooking, it increases your chances of getting burned while cooking. Ummmm DUH!
Then he said "An armed America is a safer America."

"You say that. Criminologists say the opposite!~ What a dilemma? Who do I believe? "LOL"

For every pretend criminologist mouth-piece hired by the libtard gun-grabbers, I could produce 10 actual criminologists with real college degrees who work for the DOJ who will say your stats are un-true/LIES, LOL.

"Most people are killed with guns. So the "kill innocent victims website" is the NRA''''s.

Only 1600 out of 10,000 Which is not most. When the libtard left tries to count suicides the number goes up a touch. HAHAHAHAHA

"Her husband was armed. I said that about gun owners facing unarmed criminals. That armed man who killed her is the same gun owner you praise!~"

Nope he is the reason I carry a firearm, actually I guess she is, I carry to defend the innocent, not throw them to the slaughter like the anti-gun zombies from HCI and the Brady Bunch.

[truthrocks1]

Nearly every year there are about 10,000 murders in the U.S. about 1600 involve a criminal using a firearm against their victim.

In the U.S. armed men and women exercising their birth right as Americans to keep and bear arms use a firearm

2 MILLION TIMES A YEAR IN LEGAL SELF DEFENSE!


Defending your life, the lives of your children and neighbors is your duty as Americans.

If the anti-gun zombies want to curl up and allow their wives to be raped and murdered at the hands of criminals people like them put back on the street then so be it.

Do not allow their policy of death cause your family to be raped and murdered.

Brady Campaign, Handgun Control Inc., and the Million Mom March have the blood of innocent women and children on their hands.


Self preservation is a God given right, would you ask an 82 year old woman to muster courage and fight her attackers with her fists?

Anti-gun logic kills.

[displeased]

Most criminals are unarmed.
Posted by truthrocks

You say MOST criminals are unarmed, but not all criminals. Thanks for emphasizing my point.

[truthrocks1]

Nearly every year there are about 10,000 murders in the U.S. about 1600 involve a criminal using a firearm against their victim.

In the U.S. armed men and women exercising their birth right as Americans to keep and bear arms use a firearm

2 MILLION TIMES A YEAR IN LEGAL SELF DEFENSE!


Defending your life, the lives of your children and neighbors is your duty as Americans.

If the anti-gun zombies want to curl up and allow their wives to be raped and murdered at the hands of criminals people like them put back on the street then so be it.

Do not allow their policy of death cause your family to be raped and murdered.

Brady Campaign, Handgun Control Inc., and the Million Mom March have the blood of innocent women and children on their hands.


Self preservation is a God given right, would you ask an 82 year old woman to muster courage and fight her attackers with her fists?

Anti-gun logic kills.

[displeased]

Displeased said "You say MOST criminals are unarmed, but not all criminals. Thanks for emphasizing my point"

You are welcome. Finally you realized most of the time it is you putting at risk your family''''s lives and not the criminals!~ That''''s progress!~
Posted by truthrocks

No, my point was you shouldn''t assume all criminals are unarmed. That would put your family''s life at risk.

[truthrocks1]

In most cases people who carry guns like you are the ones killing their wives.



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Posted by truthrocks




Your foaming at the mouth, now you know me based on my writing? I suppose you sum people up based on their color also.

Afterall, the first gun laws in this country were designed to keep firearms out of the hands of African Americans.


Gun grabbers are racist, just ask the 6 million Jews killed after Hitler ordered all private firearms surrendered.

Anti-gunners are racist nazi''s

[truthrocks1]

But the jwes still had guns. Don''''t believe all the lies from the gun-looby!~

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Posted by truthrocks





Youve proved my point, now you are denying the holocaust.

Typical of anti-2nd Amendment racist nazi''s

[truthrocks1]

Ted Kennedy''s car has killed more people than my guns.


F Gun Grabbers

[truthrocks1]

Nearly every year there are about 10,000 murders in the U.S. about 1600 involve a criminal using a firearm against their victim.

In the U.S. armed men and women exercising their birth right as Americans to keep and bear arms use a firearm

2 MILLION TIMES A YEAR IN LEGAL SELF DEFENSE!


Defending your life, the lives of your children and neighbors is your duty as Americans.

If the anti-gun zombies want to curl up and allow their wives to be raped and murdered at the hands of criminals people like them put back on the street then so be it.

Do not allow their policy of death cause your family to be raped and murdered.

Brady Campaign, Handgun Control Inc., and the Million Mom March have the blood of innocent women and children on their hands.


Self preservation is a God given right, would you ask an 82 year old woman to muster courage and fight her attackers with her fists?

Anti-gun logic kills.

[truthrocks1]

Sarah Brady is a BEYOTCH.

Over 80 million gun owners and 249 million guns. NRA membership at 6-8 million with other pro-2nd Amerndment groups estimated at another 3-4 million.

Even Obamalamadingdong had to "promise" to keep his hands off Americans guns.

So with more gun owners than voters who went left of center, you do the math.

We out number you, we vote.

Deal with it.

HAHAHAHAHA

When a people fear their government there is tyranny, when the government fears its people there is liberty.

We have TV stations, the most powerful lobby in Washington, and even Pelosi had to tone it down.

We are the majority.

We will handle crime, by punishing criminals, not lawful gun owners.

Focus your fear and hate on something else, maybe the enviroment, the go green train seems to be pretty trendy, jump on!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Out of 10,000 murders in the U.S. only 1600 are atributed to guns, of which over 98% are not obtained legally. In a country of 300million, that makes England (no guns allowed) more dangerous than the U.S.

Maybe your "Yes we can" bumper sticker and Starbucks frequent drinker card will save you when a meth addict is raping your children and burning down your house, me I''''''''ll stick with my Glock.

Peace Out!




I like this one!

[truthrocks1]

This is a very serious question and please tell me the truth...if you can. Are you retarded? "LOL"




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Posted by truthrocks





As a nazi, is it your intention to execute those with intellectual disabilities? The anti-gun zombies always show their true colors! LOL

Your posts prove you and the gun grabbers are racist, you intend to use firearms to commit genocide, like your hero Hitler.

Obama & Sarah Brady are murderers!

[truthrocks]

Displeased said "I''''''''m not going to rely on stats to assume somebody breaking in my house is unarmed. I don''t recommend anybody else doing it either."

I do. Look at this stats. Guns at home increase the chances of suicide, homicide, and accidental death and injury. A gun at home is more likely to be used to kill a member of the household than a criminal. Most criminals are unarmed. You ignore those stats because if you read and understand them you will have to give up your guns for the safety of your family and you do not want to do that. If you ignore those stats your guns to you are more important than your family''''s safety. You are just in denial.

[truthrocks]

truthrocks1 said "Actually it was the CDC, and the numbers they posted have been mis-represented by anti-gun zombies."

You are one giant ignoramus!~ "LOL" That study wasn''t from the CDC. That study was summoned by the Department of Justice and conducted by Cook, Ludwig, Hemenway, and Miller.

Then she said "If youre cooking, it increases your chances of getting burned while cooking. Ummmm DUH!
Then he said "An armed America is a safer America."

"LOL" How so? Guns are designed to kill so an armed America is a more likely to die America. You don''t know much about anything!~

Then she said "For every pretend criminologist mouth-piece hired by the libtard gun-grabbers, I could produce 10 actual criminologists with real college degrees who work for the DOJ who will say your stats are un-true/LIES, LOL."

So go ahead and do so. So far you used Kleck and he made a study for the gun industry not the DoJ. The criminologist I quote like Hemenway and Miller aer from Harvard, Cook is from Duke, Ludwig from Georgetown, etc. They ROCK like ME!~ "LOL"

[truthrocks]

Displeased said "No, my point was you shouldn''''t assume all criminals are unarmed. That would put your family''''s life at risk."

But since most of the time they are unarmed your guns are a greater risk to your family than criminals. Is that so hard to understand? IS IT?

[truthrocks]

truthakaPinocchiorocks1 said "Your foaming at the mouth, now you know me based on my writing?"

Your ignorance shows in your writing. "LOL"

Then she said "I suppose you sum people up based on their color also."

No, I don''t. I judge people by the content of their character and you don''t have any.

Then she asid "Afterall, the first gun laws in this country were designed to keep firearms out of the hands of African Americans."

And now they are killed with guns in big numbers.

Then she said "Gun grabbers are racist, just ask the 6 million Jews killed after Hitler ordered all private firearms surrendered."

But the jwes still had guns. Don''t believe all the lies from the gun-looby!~

Then he said "Anti-gunners are racist nazi''''s"

Spoons, hamburgers, and Nazi. Don''t you have something better? "LOL"

[truthrocks]

Pinocchio said "So the threats of criminals dictate whats in our Constitution?"

The Constitution does not garantee your right to own an assault weapon or a machine gun IGNORAMUS!~

Then she said "Maybe the threats of terrorists should dictate our religion, LOL."

The CIA found terrorist manuals in Afghanistan saying how easy is to obtain assault weapons and machine guns in the US and how to use them to kill a lot of people.

Then she said "There has only been 1 instance of a legally owned machinegun used in a crime, and it was done by a Police Officer in Miami."

That''s one too many!~

Then she said "The record speaks for itself!"

That''s true. Guns are used to kill 30,000 but just save 250. Guns are used to commit 1.7 MILLION crimes but they are used to attempt to stop 82,000 per year mostly against UNARMED criminals.

Then he said "Ted Kennedy''''s car has killed more people than my guns! LOL"

Ted Kennedy''s car has saved more people than your gun!~ Your claims are so pathetic!~

[truthrocks1]

This is a very serious question and please tell me the truth...if you can. Are you retarded? "LOL"




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Posted by truthrocks





As a nazi, is it your intention to execute those with intellectual disabilities? The anti-gun zombies always show their true colors! LOL

Your posts prove you and the gun grabbers are racist, you intend to use firearms to commit genocide, like your hero Hitler.

Obama & Sarah Brady are murderers!

[truthrocks1]

Nearly every year there are about 10,000 murders in the U.S. about 1600 involve a criminal using a firearm against their victim.

In the U.S. armed men and women exercising their birth right as Americans to keep and bear arms use a firearm

2 MILLION TIMES A YEAR IN LEGAL SELF DEFENSE!


Defending your life, the lives of your children and neighbors is your duty as Americans.

If the anti-gun zombies want to curl up and allow their wives to be raped and murdered at the hands of criminals people like them put back on the street then so be it.

Do not allow their policy of death cause your family to be raped and murdered.

Brady Campaign, Handgun Control Inc., and the Million Mom March have the blood of innocent women and children on their hands.


Self preservation is a God given right, would you ask an 82 year old woman to muster courage and fight her attackers with her fists?

Anti-gun logic kills.

[truthrocks1]

Sarah Brady is a BEYOTCH.

Over 80 million gun owners and 249 million guns. NRA membership at 6-8 million with other pro-2nd Amerndment groups estimated at another 3-4 million.

Even Obamalamadingdong had to "promise" to keep his hands off Americans guns.

So with more gun owners than voters who went left of center, you do the math.

We out number you, we vote.

Deal with it.

HAHAHAHAHA

When a people fear their government there is tyranny, when the government fears its people there is liberty.

We have TV stations, the most powerful lobby in Washington, and even Pelosi had to tone it down.

We are the majority.

We will handle crime, by punishing criminals, not lawful gun owners.

Focus your fear and hate on something else, maybe the enviroment, the go green train seems to be pretty trendy, jump on!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Out of 10,000 murders in the U.S. only 1600 are atributed to guns, of which over 98% are not obtained legally. In a country of 300million, that makes England (no guns allowed) more dangerous than the U.S.

Maybe your "Yes we can" bumper sticker and Starbucks frequent drinker card will save you when a meth addict is raping your children and burning down your house, me I''''''''''''''''ll stick with my Glock.

Peace Out!




I like this one!