He presides over the St. Luke's Community Church in Nashville, Tenn., and was arrested and charged with the shooting Monday. According to the Washington Post, Dawson was issued a stay-away order after authorities say he interrupted a 2015 House of Representatives session, yelling that he was "a prophet of God." According to the arrest documents regarding that incident, which were viewed by NBC Washington, "Dawson was removed from [the] gallery and, while being removed from the building, pushed a police officer and began to run. He was caught and charged with assault on a police officer." Dawson wrote a letter to federal court protesting the stay-away order, in which he claimed that as a "true prophet of God," he didn't have to follow the law.