Kevin Davy set out from his family's neatly kept home for the nearby church about 1:30 a.m., carrying a portable radio blaring rap music in one hand and a sword in the other.
First, he took the sword and started hacking at the arms of the 107-year-old statue, which depicts St. Anne and her daughter, the Virgin Mary, as a child holding a Bible.
When his sword failed to destroy the icon, he went back to his home to fetch a pump-action shotgun, returned and opened fire, blowing St. Anne's head into nearby bushes, cops said.
The mad man shot and wounded two police officers, who had responded to 911 calls. The police brought down the mad man with return fire.
Irony of ironies: The mad man (whom his mother describes as "a good kid with a mental problem") is in critical but stable condition at Mary Immaculate Hospital.
Link.
