Following a Facebook post, a pastor “shoots his wife then himself.”After writing on Facebook that he “may not be a perfect man,” but was a “family man,” the pastor allegedly shot his wife before killing himself.
According to McComb Police Chief Juan Cloy, Louisiana pastor Danny Prenell Jr., 25, is suspected of shooting his wife Gabrielle Prenell, 27, in front of their kids at a Hampton Inn motel. He then turned the weapon on himself.
According to Cloy, the shooting took place on Wednesday at around 3 o’clock.
Two days earlier, Danny posted on a Facebook page he appeared to share with his wife, a photo of the two of them along with their three young children. He tagged the location as Hampton Inn & Suites McComb in Mississippi, where the shooting occurred.
‘I may not be a perfect man, but I’ll always be a family man,’ stated the post, along with the hashtags #HusbandFatherPastor and #FlawedYetFavored.
Danny and his wife were transported to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, WLBT reported. Their conditions have not been disclosed.
The pastor faces an aggravated assault charge, according to WAPT.
Their children are under the custody of Child Protective Services.
A photograph published by The Enterprise-Journal showed police tape blocking off a hallway at the hotel. Beyond the tape, blood splatters, a pillow and towels were strew across the floor.
The motive of the shooting was not immediately known.
Danny, a pastor at Bright Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, posted often on Facebook about self-growth.
‘At the age of 25, I often hear that I’m far beyond my years. However, I never get satisfied with where I am….I’m constantly looking for more,’ he wrote on April 16.
‘People with small minds will keep you locked up into what can fit into their heads. The God I serve doesn’t have a limit, and I’m staying faithful because I know my cup shall run over.’
And the week prior to that, Danny posted on his wife’s birthday calling her ‘my queen’ and ‘the woman that I love and owe my life to’.