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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(North Braddock, PA) The man that tried to kill the pastor of Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock on May 5th, 2024 during their church service that day pleaded guilty, but mentally ill, on Monday. Twenty-seven-year-old Bernard Junior Polite was captured on the livestream video for the church service that day trying to shoot Pastor Glenn Germany with a handgun while Pastor Germany was preaching his sermon. According to police, Polite tried to fire the gun but it did not go off that day. Polite pleaded guilty to criminal attempt homicide and third-degree murder on Monday. The murder charge was given because not too long after, specfically hours after Polite was arrested on May 5th, 2024, his cousin, fifty-six-year-old Derek Polite, was found after being shot dead in the home that the two cousins shared together. This home was located at the 500 block of Stokes Avenue in North Braddock. Polite will get fifteen to forty years in jail for killing his cousin with a sentence that is consecutive after that first jail sentence of five to twenty years in jail for attempting to kill Pastor Germany. The total sentence in jail is twenty to sixty years for Polite.