The pastor of a church in Macon, Georgia reportedly
shot
himself while his congregation were waiting for him to preach on Sunday
service, authorities said.
According to 13 WMAZ, Rev. Teddy Parker Jr., 42, of Bibb
Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia, was discovered by his wife in the
driveway of their Warner Robins home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
"He was suffering with manic depression and he had some
emotional issues that he had been dealing with. [He was] in treatment, but he
just couldn't step away from ministry," Parker's longtime friend, Dr. E.
Dewey Smith Jr., senior pastor at The House of Hope Atlanta (Greater Travelers
Rest) in Decatur, Ga., told the Christian Post.
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