Estimated read time: 1-2 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - A 53-year-old man with no known criminal history is being held in lieu of $1 million bond, accused of shooting and killing a preacher during a revival service in southwest Louisiana.
Woodrow Karey, of Lake Charles, surrendered minutes after Ronald Harris was shot in front of 65 worshippers Friday night in the Tabernacle of Praise Worship Center, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office said Saturday. Karey was booked on a second-degree murder charge.
Deputies don't know a motive or of any past history of mental problems for Karey, sheriff's office spokeswoman Myers said in emails Sunday. Investigators also don't know whether the two men knew each other, she said.
"Karey shot Harris with a shotgun twice _ once when he walked into the church and a second time when Harris fell to the floor and Karey walked up to him and shot him at close range," she said in a news release Saturday.
She said Karey called to say he would surrender. When he turned himself in, he told deputies where to find a shotgun and a .22-caliber pistol he had left in nearby woods, Myers said.
The sheriff's office is unlikely to release other details before Monday, she wrote.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
