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Posted on 01/02/2006 7:39:23 PM PST by gregwest
CHESAPEAKE - A 21-year-old Mormon missionary died Monday night after he and his partner were shot while going door-to-door in the Deep Creek area.
The other missionary, age 19, was in serious condition at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Monday night, Chesapeake police said.
Police did not release the victims identities.
According to police the two missionaries were walking in the 2600 block of Elkhart Street off George Washington Highway about 6 p.m. when they were approached by another man. The man shot them both and fled on foot.
One of the victims ran to The Charity House, a nearby nursing home, to seek help.
Police described the suspect as a black male, about 510 wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and jeans. He was last seen heading toward Janice Lynn Court, which backs up to Elkhart.
The two missionaries had bicycles, but were not riding them at the time.
A group from the Mormon church, known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, waited in the consultation room at the Norfolk General emergency room Monday night. They declined to comment.
According to the churchs official web site there are more than 60,000 Mormon missionaries, mostly young men and women who volunteer to spread the churchs message for one and a half to two years all over the world, at their own expense.
There are apartment buildings at the end of Elkhart Street, and some residents could not leave or return to their homes for a time Monday night.
Police, working in a moderate rain, had the street blocked off a short way off George Washington Highway.
This is close to home, said resident Bobby Gatling. He has lived on the block for two years. Nothing like this has ever happened here before.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Reach Jim Washington at (757) 446-2536 or jim.washington@pilot online.com.
...that's just too funny... can I ask which "new" doctrine towards gays in the pulpit could possibly trouble an Episcopalian?
So then are "we" the Catholics correct that my wife and kids are probably going to "that other warm place" since they're not Catholics?
What do I think? ... mmmmmm, don't have a clue. I'm just trying to stumble and fumble my way towards giving everything back to the Lord that he has given me..... which is, everything. Knowing that I could never come close.
I haven't seen anything. I don't think this is a story that the MSM wants to run with. If it were the other way around, it would be all we would see.
Now, I know this will offend all of you Mason-bashers out there, but that is the truth.
wow. that's neat.
You "know" and have a "guarantee". Me, I'm not so sure. About me that is. As for you, the way you're just letting all that Charity and Humility just shine through towards those of the Mormon faith should put you in good with some of the others on this thread.
I don't think I'd be able to dedicate 2 years of my life to professing my faith door to door on bike or foot. Subject myself to have to defend my faith to open threats and as this young man did.... die for his belief.
I'm trying to imagine who the Lord holds closer, this young man dying innocently trying to do what he believes is the Lord's work.....or you? I don't know you. I'm sure in your mind and with the Humility you've expressed, that you are obviously the one the Lord holds closest.
Me, I'm thinking that when all is said and done, the young man did his duty and was called home. That his life and death, and the judgment of those aren't known by anyone. We don't know or can ever know what is truly in each persons soul. We only know our own. I'm glad that you're comfortable with your "guarantee".... I'm not sure of anything other than I'm not sure.
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I usually just tell them I'm not interested.
lol
On the Salt Lake news this morning, they said that the young men were shot because they witnessed the perp shooting another man. They also said that there is concern for the surviving missionary for that reason.
LDS Missionary From Utah Dies in Virginia Shooting
January 3rd, 2006 @ 8:35am
Brooke Walker reporting
A Bountiful man serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died overnight in Virginia. He and another missionary were shot after witnessing a shooting.
Elder Morgan W. Young, 21, from Bountiful, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Doctors treated him, but Young's injuries were too severe. He died early this morning.
Joshua Heidbrink, 19, from Greeley Colorado, was shot in the neck and collarbone. He's in the hospital in good condition.
The shooting happened in the city of Chesapeake, just after 6:00 Eastern Time last night. Police say the missionaries were going door-to-door when the whole thing happened.
We spoke with Elder Heidbrink's uncle on the phone. Craig Heidbrink says his nephew and Elder Morgan saw a man apparently shoot someone else on the street. Heidbrink says that man pretended to be shot, but actually was not hit. Then the suspect turned and fired at the elders.
Craig Heidbrink/Victim's Uncle: "He shot Joshua first and Joshua knocked him down, crumbled. Then he shot the other guy once in the face and somewhere else. I'm not sure where the other shot was."
Heidbrink says the crime was not racially or religiously motivated. He tells KSL the missionaries were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Because he's a key murder witness, police now fear Elder Heidbrink could be in danger.
Craig Heidbrink/Victim's Uncle: "They've got a 24 hour guard on him. They're just worried that guy's going to try and get him."
Heidbrink's parents are trying to get a flight to Virginia. Apparently all flights are booked, and Heidbrink says the Church is trying to help the family get to their son.
The LDS Church issued a statement of condolence this morning saying, "Our hearts and prayers go out to these young men and their families."
The two men were serving in the Richmond Virginia mission. Elder Heidbrink had served for about two months. Elder Young had served for almost two years.
Residents describe the neighborhood where the crime happened as a quiet street, an area without many problems. The shooting comes as a shock to residents who live in the area. They say nothing like this has ever happened on their street before.
But a very different and a very frightening scene unfolded last night.
Tracy Seutter/ Heard the Shots: "We just had New Year's. I thought it was firecrackers."
Unfortunately not firecrackers, but gunshots.
After being shot, Elder Heidbrink went to a nearby nursing home to seek help. Both missionaries were taken to the hospital where Elder Young died overnight. Again, Elder Heidbrink is reported in good condition.
The shooter is still on the run.
I hope you dont mind my elbowing in here but I would like to remind all the posters and lurkers that way back in 1999, Larry Gene Ashbrook entered a prayer service in a Baptist church in Ft. Worth and gunned down several kids and a counselor before killing himself.
Certainly adherents of many different confessions reached out in love and compassion and prayed for all the families. They were there at the community wide services. But they did not challenge the doctrines of those who were grieving. Nor did they challenge Baptist beliefs here on Free Republic when the news broke on the News forum.
Likewise, this thread is not the place for such challenges. It is the place for compassion, love, intercessory prayer and watching the news unfold just as it was for the Baptists in Ft. Worth so many years ago.
The place for comparing doctrines with mutual respect is the Religion forum.
I would like to think not, but after being invited to see a viewing of the "Godmakers" and hearing the teens around me talking about getting a shotgun and killing Mormons by the end of the film, you have to wonder.
They serve their master.
I dont know why you are so bitter against the mormon church, but you just need to know when and where to post. You just need to take your bitterness some place else. This is a post about a missionary being killed and all you do is bash his beliefs.
I agree.
What tremendous courage these two missionaries had...courage that can come only from the Holy Spirit.
Joshua fought back, even after being severely wounded, and managed to run to a nearby nursing home to get help for his Brother missionary.
I hope justice prevails in this case.
It reminds me of the Mormon family who were visiting NYC a few years ago when set upon by the same kind of scum as this shooter. It happened in the NYC subway. The young son of the Mormon couple stepped in an set himself between his mother and the attackers, and paid with his life.
It points up the juxtaposition of two cultures in our society, one, the culture of life, and the other, the culture of death.
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