Florida pastor fatally stabbed by man he was trying to help

A South Florida pastor and group chief was fatally stabbed by a person he was making an attempt to assist. In response to CBS Information, the suspect, recognized as 44-year-old James Dawkins, had been allowed to remain within the Westview Baptist Church on a temporal foundation.

The sufferer, Antwane ‘A-D’ Lenoir, 41, served as a pastor on the church for 15 years. Authorities mentioned  Lenoir acted selflessly on the day he died, including that the deadly April 6 incident occurred when the sufferer was making a locksmith change the church’s locks.

Authorities mentioned Lenoir and Dawkins obtained right into a verbal altercation whereas the sufferer and the locksmith have been on the church. The argument later escalated and Dawkins repeatedly stabbed Lenoir with none provocation. The suspect is claimed to have fled the scene within the wake of the assault.

“I realized so much from my husband besides, you realize, in fact, the best way to dwell with out him,” Lenoir’s spouse of 20 years, Bree, mentioned.

Bree additionally informed CBS Information that her deceased husband was a “superb instance of a selfless particular person, a joy-filled particular person. He at all times smiled, even when issues have been wanting type of grim or dreary, you wouldn’t comprehend it by his countenance.”

“His life shouldn’t be when it ended. It’s not even about when it began. It’s about what he did in between to make his life depend,” Bree added. She additionally mentioned that’s the reminiscence she desires their kids to have of him.

“They’ve their moments and I anticipate that that’s gonna be the way in which it’s indefinitely, you realize, going ahead. However, they bear in mind their dad because the man, the man that when he comes, he, he’ll play video games with them, he’ll, you realize, textual content in the home when he was humorous about texting in the home.”

Dawkins, who has since been arrested, faces homicide expenses.