Two young Street preachers are killed in Florida gangster style by a young man that had been given the good news of Jesus Christ, but apparently rejected it. It breaks our heart, here at the2012warning.com , to learn of the brutal slaying of two young men who had recently left the life of crime and started preaching for Jesus to those in their own neighborhood.
May God bless the families, and may soul-winners everywhere re-double our efforts to win this world to Christ before it’s too late.
Here is the story:
By Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 12:29 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010
Posted: 2:10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
BOYNTON BEACH —
Jeriah Woody executed two men who made the mistake of preaching religion to the 18-year-old, a witness has told police.
Woody, who turned himself in to Boynton Beach police Wednesday, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Saturday night deaths of Stephen Ocean, 23,
and Tite Sufra, 24,
near the Boynton Beach city library.
He was expected to be taken to the Palm Beach County Jail later today and have a bond hearing Thursday. Boynton Beach spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said this afternoon he was still being questioned and she would not immediately provide information about a motive.
A woman who identified herself as Ocean’s sister, but did not want to give her name, said the two men, best friends, were ministers who were ordained last year and had turned their lives around after run-ins with law enforcement. She did not want to identify the church with which they were aligned.
“They go around and minister to boys and say where they came from,” the sister said. “They did that all day and all night.”
Jail records show no adult arrests for Sufra. Ocean was arrested in 2003 on robbery charges and in 2004 for violating probation on previous battery and petit theft convictions. He was arrested in 2006 for carrying a concealed firearm and resisting an officer.
Jail records show no adult arrests for Woody.
According to a Boynton Beach police report, a person who was with the two slain men told police that, about 8 p.m Saturday, the three were walking through the neighborhood, preaching, and encountered Woody under a tree.
They had been preaching to him for about 15 minutes when he received a call on his cellphone.
The three heard him tell the person on the phone that he was “right down the street.”
He then told the three preachers he had to go.
As the three began walking east, they noticed Woody running toward them.
The friend said he saw Sufra walk toward Woody; he then saw a flash and saw Sufra fall.
Ocean began running and was dropped by a shot to the buttocks, the witness said.
He said Woody then walked up to Ocean and shot him in the head execution-style.
The third man was able to flee and call police, the report said.
Officers found the two lying in the 100 block of Southwest Second Avenue.
On Tuesday, a source alerted detectives to a man with the street name of “plug” who matched the description of the shooter.
The man who’d been preaching with the two other men picked Woody out of a lineup, the report said.
The2012warning.com is deeply saddened by this grievous crime. Personally, we go out every week of the world sharing Christ with those around us, just like these two godly men were doing. As this world gets more wicked and as it gets more callous to Christ and Christians, may we keep on keeping on. Obey the great commission. Win the lost at any cost. Instead of timidity and fear resulting from this heinous crime, may Christians everywhere take up the work of our two fallen comrades, that their death not be in vain.
