14 DAY TRIAL // A pastor from the Forest Hill church in Northern Texas was clobbered to death yesterday afternoon as a man drove his car into a church, then attacked the pastor with an electric guitar.
This situation gets more unusual, as the assailant was later found dead, after being subdued by police with a stun gun in the middle of an arrest.
The incident happened at the Greater Sweethome Missionary Baptist Church in Forest Hill, east of Fort Worth.
Pastor Danny Kirk Sr., founder of the church, having served there for 18 years, was inside the music room when the enraged man approached him.
To get to him, the man had to first go through the janitor, who he also assaulted and left injured.
He then got in his car and drove through church walls, found the pastor and violently attacked him, striking him over the head repeatedly.
The church secretary was inside the church at the time, NBCDFW reports, and she was the one that called the police, while hiding inside an office.
As officers arrived at the crime, the assailant was still “armed” with the blunt weapon, and they subdued him using a taser gun.
Ten minutes after being restrained and placed in the back of the squad car, he was checked on and police noticed he was not breathing and had no pulse.
The man was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital, but was declared dead on arrival, MedStar spokesman Matt Zavadsky stated. Texas Rangers have been called in to assist with the investigation, as, so far, no motive for the attack has been uncovered.
The community mourns a dedicated pastor.
“The whole church is destroyed. This is so senseless and so uncalled for. I don't know God's plan for this. It just doesn't make any sense to me to take pastor Kirk from us at this time,” church member Shirley Robinson said.