CLINTON TWP — No one was injured at a church picnic when a man deliberately drove his pickup truck toward a tent filled with dozens of parishioners, state police said.

Just 30 feet from the tent, the truck stopped when it apparently got stopped stuck in a field, Friday evening.

Police later arrested Shawn E. McDonell, 36, of Penn Township on several charges stemming from the incident at New Life Christian Ministries on Knoch Road.

Only hours before the incident, the church had informed the McDonell that he was barred from its property. He is being held in the Butler County Prison on $30,000 bail.

Investigators said the defendant about 12:30 p.m. Friday was informed by church officials that he was no longer permitted on their premises. Police an hour later contacted the suspect, advising him of the same prohibition.

Charging documents did not indicate McDonell’s prior affiliation with the church or why he was no longer welcome there.

Investigating officers and church officials did not immediately return telephone calls Monday.

But at 5 p.m., the defendant showed up there driving his 1993 Ford pickup. Church employee James Reedy stopped him at the entrance to the parking lot. He was told to leave.

Instead, documents said, McDonell told Reedy, who was in front of the truck, “get out of my way.”

The suspect sped forward, forcing Reedy to jump out of the way.

The truck traveled through the gravel lot and continued down a grass hill into a field, where about 50 members were in a tent set up for a picnic, police said.

The truck stopped about 10 yards from the tent “due to it getting stuck” in the field, documents said.

The church security manager rushed in and got McDonell out of the pickup and held him until a trooper arrived.

District Judge Lewis Stoughton arraigned McDonell on 50 counts of reckless endangerment and charges of simple assault, trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment.