Hero protects church full of kids: Off-duty cop disarms gun-toting suspect in Sacramento

Hero protects church full of kids: Off-duty cop disarms gun-toting suspect in Sacramento

An off-duty detective thwarted what had all the makings of a potential church massacre last week in Sacramento.Brian Girardot Jr., 20, dropped off a younger relative at St. Mary Parish School on Wednesday morning, then allegedly returned around 9:30 a.m. when St. Mary Catholic Church was in the process of holding an all-school Ash Wednesday Mass next door.Amy Hale, the principal of the school, indicated that "all church doors were locked per our…