{"id":1025312,"date":"2021-11-17T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025312"},"modified":"2021-11-17T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:43:58","slug":"69-year-old-baltimore-church-worker-found-stabbed-to-death-in-church-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/69-year-old-baltimore-church-worker-found-stabbed-to-death-in-church-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":"69-Year-Old Baltimore Church Worker Found Stabbed to Death in Church Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F69-year-old-baltimore-church-worker-found-stabbed-to-death-in-church-bathroom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-483896414-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Baltimore authorities say they are searching for the killer of a 69-year-old church sexton, who was stabbed to death shortly after she arrived for work Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Sexton Evelyn Player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/crime\/bs-md-ci-cr-tuesday-crime-20211116-abeoa3ywrbc2vmngei74lmb74q-story.html\">arrived<\/a> for work on Tuesday at Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore and was found stabbed to death shortly thereafter, according to the<em> Baltimore Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The victim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2LNBUBXkowQ\">arrived<\/a> at the church around 6:00 a.m. before her body was discovered&nbsp;in a bathroom near her work area at around 6:50 a.m., Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison stated in a Tuesday press conference, which was documented by WBALTV.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raw: Mayor, BPD commissioner address homicide at church\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2LNBUBXkowQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe know for a fact people were around. Someone knows, heard, or saw something,\u201d Harrison stated at the press conference. \u201cWe implore you to call us, we beg you to call us right now so we cannot only hold this person or persons accountable, but we can bring justice and calm and closure to this family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) called the at-large killer a \u201ccoward and scum\u201d at the press conference and pleaded with the community to come forward with information.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause if we\u2019re okay with someone this cowardly murdering someone that could be your grandmother, that could be someone else\u2019s grandmother, then what are willing to stand up for,\u201d Scott said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Player had been a member of the church for more than fifty years and four generations of her family are church members, according to WBALTV.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Alethea Finch, told the <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em> she cannot wrap her head around her mother\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cWho would want to hurt my mother?\u201d asked Alethea Finch, as she cried on the porch of the home she shared with her mother. \u201cHow could someone hurt someone in such a sacred place? \u2026 My heart\u2019s broken into a million pieces. I don\u2019t understand why this happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Finch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmar2news.com\/news\/local-news\/im-numb-daughter-of-69-year-old-woman-found-dead-in-baltimore-church-says-mother-was-loving-kindhearted-and-god-fearing\">told<\/a> WMAR she had picked up a shift for her friend on Tuesday <\/span><span>\u201cbecause her friend needed help, that\u2019s what she did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShe offered her hand and went to help her friend,\u201d Finch continued.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s upsetting,\u201d Finch told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s disturbing that you are not even safe in a church.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rev. Donte L. Hickman, a pastor at the church with a congregation of 4,000 people, said Player would attend church with her daughter and grandson, according to the <em>Baltimore Sun.&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hickman says she had a reputation among the congregation for keeping the church orderly and earned the nickname \u201cThe Sheriff\u201d from churchgoers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s just unthinkable,\u201d he said, per Baltimore Sun. \u201cWe<b>&nbsp;<\/b>pray that whoever the culprit is, is brought to justice. But we want them to know that our work and mission will continue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore authorities say they are searching for the killer of a 69-year-old church sexton, who was stabbed to death shortly after she arrived for work Tuesday morning. 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