{"id":532,"date":"2009-03-10T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2009-03-10T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T14:09:11","slug":"pastor-gunned-down-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/pastor-gunned-down-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor gunned down in church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pastor from the First Baptist Church in Illinois USA were the gunman shot at the Pastor after exchanging words with him once his gun jammed got\u00a0 out a knife<\/p>\n<p>This is shocking how people can go and just kill someone it&#8217;s very wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MARYVILLE, Ill. &#8211; Worshippers at the sprawling First Baptist Church in this St. Louis suburb initially weren&#8217;t alarmed when a young man they didn&#8217;t recognize walked up the church&#8217;s center aisle during the early morning sermon. Until he opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, identified by authorities as a 27-year-old from Troy, strode toward the Rev. Fred Winters shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, exchanged words with him, then fired a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol until it jammed. Churchgoers then wrestled him to the ground as he brandished a knife, said Illinois State Police Director Larry Trent.<\/p>\n<p>Winters later died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>None of the about 150 worshippers attending the early morning service seemed to recognize the gunman, and investigators did not know details of Winters&#8217; conversation with him, Trent said, but they planned to review an audio recording of the service.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery leaves church members wondering who would want to hurt the man who was their pastor for 22 years and why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/nation\/40921842.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pastor from the First Baptist Church in Illinois USA were the gunman shot at the Pastor after exchanging words with him once his gun jammed got\u00a0 out a knife This is shocking how people can go and just kill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/pastor-gunned-down-in-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}