Police charged a pastor’s girlfriend with his murder after Pastor Brandon Parker was found shot dead outside her home early Saturday morning.
“This is a terrible tragedy,” Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said. He added later, “It’s a domestic issue that escalated.”
Parker was part of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia, according to the Macon Telegraph. The church’s senior pastor is Rev. Jacob Parker. Brandon Parker is the grandson of late singer-songwriter Otis Redding.
Parker’s girlfriend Tracia Yvonne Hubbard was charged with his murder over the weekend.
“There was actually a history of domestic abuse that a lot of people didn’t know about,” Hubbard’s niece Joslyn Clayton said. “She had broken bones and was on crutches a couple of months ago after he pushed her off a porch.”
Parker’s autopsy has been postponed until at least Tuesday.
