I’ve done everyone the service of condensing the story by removing the irrelevent tabloid sensationalization and focused on the relevant facts:
…at St. James Catholic Church on Sunday afternoon…Witnesses said they had just started to say a prayer when a man and woman walked into the church holding hands.
The victim and his wife “were sitting in the back pew off to the right side when their daughter and her husband walked in holding hands,” said Leon Bedford. “He walked up to (the man) and leaned over and pointed his gun at him criminal style and pulled the trigger.”
The gunman then turned around and fled onto Harrison Boulevard, Bedford said. Several members of the congregation chased him.
Police are hunting Charles Richard Jennings Jr., 35. They said he fled in a stolen white GMC pickup.
Hernandez said the congregation was told by the priest that the suspect has been involved in domestic violence and has abused his wife.
“I’m assuming he brought her to church to watch him kill her father on Father’s Day,” she said.
I know the victim’s wife, and people who were IN the church at the time it happened. I have other reports that said the perp and his wife were NOT “holding hands” — so there are conflicting eye witness reports. I do know that the man who was shot and his wife were sitting at the back.
The wife had excellent relationships with both her parents - and the priest (whom I also know) had said the perp had in past committed domestic violence on his wife, and the police records seem to indicate that past. So PLEASE do not make it sound like the daughter was okay with what the husband did. They also have a young under school age toddler son, who was apparently not present. I know from a source who would know that the daughter went to the hospital with her mom and dad.