A teenager charged in an assault on a priest in the parking lot of the priest’s south Charlotte church is due in court Monday afternoon. Seventeen-year-old William McCloskey is charged with assault with a deadly weapon and hit and run.
CMPD says Father Steve Dalber was punched and also hit with a car in the parking lot of St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church on Friday night. Dalber sustained a broken arm and a back injury. The church says the priest was in the parking lot looking for his cellphone at the time. Authorities have not released a possible motive for the attack.