Have you seen this scumbag? Well, if you have, call the cops. According to media reports, John Dennis, 23, the second victim, of a shooting rampage inside a Clifton, New Jersey, church has died, and the lone survivor is in “extremely critical” condition. Police were searching for 27-year-old Joseph M. Pallipurath of Sacramento, Calif. He is wanted in the killing of his estranged wife, 24-year-old Reshma James, who was gunned down inside St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church in Clifton on Sunday. The church caters to immigrant families from the southern Indian state of Kerala.
Davis was shot along with James, and her cousin, Silvy Perincheril. Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano said that 47-year-old Perincheril was in “extremely critical” condition. The prosecutor said Dennis had no known relationship to the victims and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
About 200 people were attending services inside the church when the gunman opened fire before noon. Churchgoers described bedlam after the shots rang out.”Kids were crying. People were screaming,” Suja Alummoottil told The Record of Bergen County. “It was chaotic.” Alummoottil, 40, said Pallipurath appeared angry when he confronted James in the vestibule as the service was concluding. Alummoottil said she went to get help and, a few seconds later, heard three shots.
The latest is that the hunt for the gunman focuses on Georgia, where he has relatives. According to the police Joseph Pallipurath drove across the country to confront his estranged wife and then killed her in the NJ church.
James had been staying in Hawthorne with Perincheril, and had taken out a restraining order against her estranged husband, who she wed in an arranged marriage, the prosecutor said.”She found out he wasn’t all he was cut out to be,” Avigliano said. “He was abusive toward her, and she left him and came out here.”
Pallipurath was last seen driving a green 2004 Jeep with California license plates and a black soft top. Authorities warned people that he was believed to be armed. This is a real shame that the country continues to be plagued by gun violence. How many more lives are going to be wrecked by gun violence before something drastic is done? Domestic violence occurs daily and it is swept under the rug in most instances. Most politicians would not dare mention the words, let alone propose legislation to help the victim. No woman should have to live with the fear of being killed by an angry spouse. This is a tragedy on so many levels.
Filed under: Domestic Violence, John Dennis, Joseph M. Pallipurath, Reshma James
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