Here is another incident of church violence that occurred November 8th, 2008. The incident was the result of a year long disagreement between the Pastor and the shooter. We need more details to determine if the threat was identified as an issue before the shooting or if it was dismissed as a minor disagreement.
Details that are known are here:
A gunman fatally shot a Cincinnati minister and wounded a church deacon just after the two men arrived at a Covington, Kentucky church to attend a funeral, police said.
There has been a yearlong dispute between the accused gunman and the minister, the Rev. Donald Fairbanks Sr.
Fairbanks and Dowdell Cobb were shot just before 11 a.m. Saturday, police said. The gunman chased one of the men to a nearby park, where he shot the man a second time.
It was unclear which of the men was shot in the park. Frederick L. Davis, of Covington, quickly surrendered to police and was charged with murder, first degree assault, criminal mischief and violating an emergency protection order. He was being held without bail.
Fairbanks, pastor of Cincinnati’s New St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, died later Saturday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Covington. Cobb, a deacon at the church, was treated at University Hospital in Cincinnati.
In June 2007, Fairbanks filed a complaint accusing Davis of making a threatening phone call to his wife, records showed. Davis, 40, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in October 2007, and a judge sentenced him to a year probation and ordered him to stay away from Fairbanks and New St. Paul Baptist Church.
Fairbanks and Cobb had planned to attend the funeral of a 71-year-old woman who was related to a member of New St. Paul’s congregation.
