{"id":66650,"date":"2021-01-04T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=66650"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:26:17","slug":"21-year-old-man-charged-with-murder-of-texas-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/21-year-old-man-charged-with-murder-of-texas-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"21-year-old man charged with murder of Texas pastor"},"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\">16<\/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%2F21-year-old-man-charged-with-murder-of-texas-pastor%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=66650&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--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"297\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-3122908-297x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2354066\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2354066\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2354066\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21004608216671-329x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2354066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo provided by the Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Jan. 4, 2021, shows Mytrez Deunte Woolen. Law enforcement officials said the 21-year-old was on the run from authorities late Saturday, Jan 2 and had hidden in the Starrville Methodist Church near Winona, Texas, where he shot and killed the 62-year-old pastor and wounded another person. Woolen faces capital murder and felony assault charges. (Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 6:30 PM PT \u2013 Monday, January 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A community in East Texas is mourning the death of a local pastor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark McWilliams and Rosemary, his wife, yeah, we knew them pretty well, and they were just a super good couple,&#8221; friend of the couple Tom Pritchard said.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Mark McWilliams was shot and killed Sunday. His wife and one other person were injured inside the Starrville Methodist Church about 100 miles east of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>21-year-old Mytrez Woolen was hiding from police in the church&#8217;s bathroom when the pastor discovered him and confronted him with a gun. Allegedly, Woolen grabbed the pastor&#8217;s weapon and killed the 62-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pastor got distracted talking to his wife, the suspect lunged at him, was able to take the firearm out of his hand,&#8221; Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect broke a window to enter the church as he was being pursued by authorities. Police believe Woolen was a suspect in a shooting the night before and spotted his vehicle at a local convenience store. The discovery of his car prompted a 20 minute high-speed chase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a suspect in two. A drive-by shooting of a residence, and then shot at another victim with the shotgun we believe to be the shotgun that we have recovered,&#8221; Sheriff Smith explained.<\/p>\n<p>The chase ended near the church, where Woolen&#8217;s car crashed and he ran from the scene. Police searched the area for two hours, but could not find the suspect. Woolen was not discovered until the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said he does not have any affiliation with the church. He is being charged with felony assault and capital murder. His bail is set at $3.5 million.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/democrat-congressman-ends-opening-prayer-with-amen-and-awoman\/\">Democrat Congressman Ends Opening Prayer With \u2018Amen And Awoman\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo provided by the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180580,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-3122908-297x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"21-year-old man charged with murder of Texas pastor","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-3122908-297x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"21-year-old man charged with murder of Texas pastor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}