Christine Kozlowski, Thomas Hand and their son, Roman, together in happier times.
Facebook/Christine Kozlowski Hand
Posted on 01/26/2022 2:40:46 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The slain husband of a former Miss America contestant was tragically gunned down in front of his wife and two-year-old son in a rough Alabama neighborhood while educating impoverished strangers about the powers of God, his friends and family say - just days after the couple celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary.
Thomas Hand Jr., 37, who considered himself a born-again Christian, was sharing information about Christianity in the Montgomery area on Saturday with his wife and toddler when a man - mumbling - walked up to him and shot him, his friends told DailyMail.com.
His wife, former Miss Mississippi Christine Kozlowski Hand, 33, confirmed the account in a brief interview with Dailymail.com on Wednesday, saying: 'What you said is true. It was a complete random act of violence.'
Hand Jr. - a fitness buff and ex-competitive bodybuilder - discovered God in 2018 and soon became infatuated with Christianity. He and his wife made it a Saturday tradition to visit low-income areas in Alabama and share religious teachings.
'He tried to spread the word of God, and he was shot,' longtime friend Kevin Rayan told DailyMail.com.
A 17-year-old was arrested in the Montgomery shooting and faces a charge of capital murder in the death of Thomas Hand Jr., 37, on Saturday afternoon, according to police, who later named the suspect as Jerimiah Walker of Montgomery.
Walker is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Facility. Police did not immediately disclose the motive or details of the January 22 slaying, which happened about 4:30 p.m. on the 3100 block of Texas Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey said Monday that the city was 'under siege' by criminals following a weekend of violence in Alabama's capital.
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Kids these days . . .
I despise the media.
“...gunned down in front of his wife and two-year-old son in a rough Alabama neighborhood...”
More black-on-white crime that we aren’t supposed to notice.
White Christian man, lovely wife, young son all pictured in the article...funny, no pic of the POS that killed him
Facebook/Christine Kozlowski Hand
“Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey said Monday that the city was ‘under siege’ by criminals following a weekend of violence in Alabama’s capital.”
While I do completely get it that convention and visitors bureau websites are not always a good portrayal of an area, Montgomery has looked kinda interesting because of its history.
Is the whole city that bad?
Poor pregnant dead guy. She must have been on top.
Okay, so now having read the article, making fun of the headline wording was probably not the classiest response.
Yeah, and we all know exactly why.
Whites have been fleeing out of Montgomery for several decades now. It’s even worse in Jackson, MS, which is now your worst sort of African third-world hellhole with a Black Supremacist Mayor named Chokme Lumumba, Jr.
You’re too kind.
This little gem, too:
…discovered God in 2018 and soon became infatuated with Christianity.
R.I.P., Mr. Hand and prayers up for his loved ones. 🙏
Yeah, that’s a real knee slapper right there.
How about this paragraph????
“...Walker is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Facility. Police did not immediately disclose the motive or details of the January 22 slaying, which happened about 4:30 p.m. on the 3100 block of Texas Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene...”
Are they trying to say that Walker, the shooter, was pronounced dead at the scene????
They must get writer/reporters from the 2nd grade now days...
“Infatuated”? This writer needs to get a clue.
The rate of crime in Montgomery is 55.56 per 1,000 residents during a standard year. People who live in Montgomery generally consider the southeast part of the city to be the safest. Your chance of being a victim of crime in Montgomery may be as high as 1 in 7 in the northwest neighborhoods, or as low as 1 in 27 in the southeast part of the city.
So, was he dead before he was shot down?
I doubt it was random. Probably targeted for being white and/or Christian.
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