Video: Suspect with Hebrew Neck Tattoo Admits to Crucifying Pastor in Arizona, Says “It’s Commandment to Rid Israel of Evil”
Arizona (Quds News Network)- In a religiously motivated murder, a man with a Hebrew neck tattoo admitted to crucifying a pastor in Arizona and revealed that he had a broader hit list of religious leaders he intended to kill. The suspect justified his crime by saying, “It’s a commandment to rid Israel of evil.”
According to reports, Adam Christopher Sheafe, 51, told True Crime Arizona Monday that he crucified 76-year-old Pastor William Schonemann, known in the community as “Pastor Bill,” inside his New River home in April.
Sheafe said the attack was part of what he claimed was a divine mission to punish religious leaders who, in his view, were misleading followers.
“I drove from there (Phoenix) to Bill’s house, like two in the morning on a Sunday night, and I executed him,” Sheafe told the correspondent Briana Whitney. Schonemann was found dead in his bed, covered in blood, on April 28 during a welfare check.
He was on his way to kill two priests in Sedona when he was arrested by police, he told his interviewer.
“Christian, Catholic, Mormon. Anyone preaching that Jesus is God, essentially, the Trinity, a concept created by man, by Paul. He’s not God. God, the father alone, is God,” he said.
Asked whether he was ever victimized by a Christian, he replied no, and said his family is Christian and that he had a good childhood.
“I don’t hate Christians. I’m after the pastors that are leading them astray,” he said.
Asked if he regretted anything, he said “nothing,” adding that he had a history of drug use, but that he didn’t believe it had impacted him.
“How do you justify that? I mean, if you’re killing somebody or multiple people — attempted, how does that work?”
“It’s a commandment to rid Israel of evil,” Sheafe replied.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said the murder was religiously motivated.
Sheafe also has a Yahweh tattoo on his neck. Arizona’s Family Investigates asked Chris Scheafe about his son’s tattoo.
Adam Sheafe had:
✅ Jewish Tattoo
✅ Rejected Christianity
✅ Followed Commandments
✅ Said “It’s a commandment to rid Israel of evil”
✅ Anyone who says Jesus is the son of God deserves to die. pic.twitter.com/RO1gXjVR0Z
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“Adam became extremely interested in the Old Testament. He read it extensively. And part of that process became his interest; we weren’t excited when we’d learned that he’d done it, but to have the tattoo. It means God. It means he’s directly related to God. And he wanted people to know that was his allegiance,” he said.
