Nationwide — Roy Powell, a 72-year-old African American pastor from Cellular, Alabama, has been charged with first-degree theft after he reportedly took a person’s e-book bag at gunpoint and hit him with a pistol throughout an altercation.
Powell, who has been a pastor for 30 years at Cedar Avenue Missionary Baptist Church in close by Saraland, was arrested however launched from jail the next day. He didn’t reply to requests for remark.
The alleged sufferer stated he was strolling to the put up workplace when Powell ran into him on the sidewalk.
“He stated, ‘you was in my manner, I’m strolling down the sidewalk,’ and we had phrases backwards and forwards,” he advised WLBT.
In response to the sufferer, Powell drove away after the argument however returned minutes later in a truck, this time armed with a gun. The person claims Powell hit him on the pinnacle with the weapon and took his e-book bag.
Court docket papers say Powell later got here again to apologize. The sufferer, who didn’t know Powell was a pastor on the time, was shocked to find out about his background afterward.
“So, after I heard that, I used to be like ‘wow.’ I don’t know what to say. Simply wow,” he stated.
The case is ongoing as authorities examine the incident.
