Police say Ala. pastor killed wife, wounded his daughter

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police say Ala. pastor killed wife, wounded his daughter
Gardendale man allegedly tried to kill himself with a knife, remains hospitalized
By Jay Reeves
The Associated Press
Published: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 11, 2013 at 10:01 p.m.

GARDENDALE | A prominent Alabama pastor fatally shot his wife and wounded their 18-year-old daughter in their church-owned home before grabbing a kitchen knife and trying to stab himself to death, police said Friday.

The Rev. Terry Greer, 54, is being charged with murder in the slaying of 52-year-old Lisa Greer and attempted murder in the wounding of Suzanna Greer, a University of South Alabama student, according to police in Gardendale, a suburb about 10 miles north of Birmingham.

Greer is senior pastor at Gardendale-Mount Vernon United Methodist Church near Birmingham. Prominent in Methodist circles in the area, he leads a church with an average Sunday attendance of about 670.

After Greer opened fire on his wife and daughter Thursday, the teenager grabbed the gun and ran to a neighbor’s house to alert authorities, police said.




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[exboyfil]

1. Amazing that the daughter was able to disarm him

Must suck if you want to do a murder suicide and someone takes your gun before you can complete the second half.

[klook]

4. That's why I say, "Look out for Number One."

If you're gonna do a murder-suicide, be sure you're first on the hit list.

[tavalon]

6. Heh, heh, that's good

[Sekhmets Daughter]

27. Too funny!

[surrealAmerican]

31. Somehow, that response is a very good match ...

... for your avatar. Thanks.

[MichaelHarris]

2. Only way to stop a bad preacher with a gun

is with a good preacher with a gun, at least that's what the NRA told me. I'm having a little trouble on this one though, how do we handle the goods guys with guns who become bad guys with a gun? We need like a moderate guy with a gun?

[panzerfaust]

13. Another answer is armed guards in churches?

Well, guess that would not have helped here. Come to think on it, don't really see how armed guards in schools are going to help much either.


That's my guv - who wanted to be your president (after he said he was only kidding about having Texas secede from the USA) - to the left in this picture.

Another responsible gun-owner.

[alfredo]

25. That reminds me of this:

[Kalidurga]

3. So did the good pastor...

A. Watch too many violent movies

B. Play too many violent video games.

C. Listen to a lot of grunge/goth.rock n roll or insert your most hated kind of music.

D. Had some kind of mental illness

E. Listened to Fox one too many times.

F. He was a freaking control freak and his wife said she wanted a divorce.

G. Probably something I haven't even thought of.

[ReRe]

5. Can I take a stab at answering this?

... I say D., E., & F.; maybe G.

[rateyes]

10. H.

All of the above.

[duhneece]

11. Was taking an antidepressant

That's the hate-radio talk I heard yesterday...blame it all on antidepressants made by pharmaceutical companies that the liberal are protecting...I swear that's what was being said.

[NealK]

32. Some of the hate-radio talk show hosts should go eazy on the Oxycontin.

[brooklynite]

35. So, if we had repealed Obamacare, he wouldn't have been able to afford the bad antidepressants?

Sounds like a win-win situation.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

7. If only the daughter had owned a gun.

Or something like that. After all, what if she was attacked by four preachers with guns? Then what?

[Jamastiene]

8. Isn't murder a sin?

[Major Nikon]

12. Religion and guns don't always mix well

[yardwork]

22. That is the understatement of the millennium. And the previous one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict

[Bluenorthwest]

9. He lived, so will they invite him to pray at the Inaugural? He's a 'minister' and all that.

Another example of the violence and hate that flows out of the 'church' and lives in the bones of the clerics of that church.

[Loudly]

14. He didn't have a right to do that. Just the ability.

[Xipe Totec]

15. These things only happen when you don't allow God into your life

Or so I've heard.

[Ezlivin]

23. If ONLY there had been prayer or God in that home!

It's obvious that if this had truly been a God-filled home the tragedy would not have happened.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

34. but if he repents, all is well.

well, maybe not.

[CurtEastPoint]

16. That man is FIFTY-FOUR? He looks seventy.

[loudsue]

21. You ever raise a teenage daughter?

Makes fifty-four look seventy.

[orwell]

17. WWJS...

Who would Jesus shoot?

[bowens43]

18. guns and god, man's two most vile inventions......

[valerief]

20. +1

[valerief]

19. If he didn't have a gun...

[Wernothelpless]

24. there's so much more to this story ...

It's not what they're talking about it as much as what they're hiding ... sounds like he wanted to silence his family so they couldn't tell on him ...

:The reverend has been on medical leave since experiencing heart problems and a car accident in autumn, and details on what may have led up to the violence were not immediately available."

"A worship leader at Greer’s church was recently arrested on charges of soliciting a child for sex and traveling to have sex with a child, but Walker said there did not appear to be any link between that case and the shootings."

[TheGov97]

26. Ban all pastors!

[Lex]

29. Sounds good to me.

[crimson333]

28. Al.com said he suffered head trauma/brain injury in the car wreck

He had a few months ago and has not been able to work since then.

[libdem4life]

30. If this is correct, he was probably legally on some heavy meds or withdrawing/cutting down...

no good solutions here other than the obvious...he was infinitely less dangerous with just a knife. Another deadly notch on our country's proverbial belt.

And unfortunately the mental health issue is a non-starter. No one can be declared mentally incompetent (not related to an illegal act) without expensive legal proceedings...so no "mental health background check" will work. Now, he will be deprived of his gun legally. For some, too little, too late. Sad to say.

[crim son]

33. More proof that it isn't as easy to kill

with a knife as it is with a gun.