Charges: Deadly Shiloh Temple funeral shooting stemmed from fight over gun
By Rose Semenov
Two people were shot in a parking lot outside Shiloh Temple in Minneapolis on June 11, 2021.
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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A 26-year-old St. Paul man has been charged by warrant in connection to a deadly shooting outside a funeral at Shiloh Temple in Minneapolis earlier this summer.
Kevin Lamarr Mason, 26, is charged with second-degree murder and possessing a firearm after a previous conviction.
According to the charges, police knew people associated with a north Minneapolis street gang would be attending the funeral and officers were concerned about more possible violence. After hearing shots fired, police arrived at the church and found a man suffering from gunshot wounds to the neck and back. Responders took him to a hospital, where he later died. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Dontevius Ahmad Catchings, 29, of Minneapolis.
CHICAGO (WLS) The two brothers alleging St. Sabina pastor Father Michael Pfleger sexually abused them more than 40 years ago are speaking out for the first time. The longtime Chicago pastor denies abusing anyone.
The men did not want their names used nor their faces shown fully, but they want their stories told. It destroyed my life, said the younger brother.
Both men are in their 60s. They both allege Fr. Pfleger sexually abused them they were minors. They claim the alleged abuse started at Precious Blood parish on Chicago s West Side. As a kid I was puzzled, I was confused, I was, you know, you confuse love with caring and, and this is an adult that cares about me, said the older brother.
Two brother on Monday shared details of sexual abuse they say they suffered at the hands of the Rev. Michael Pfleger over four decades ago. Attorneys for the longtime St. Sabina Church pastor have vehemently shot down the accusations, calling them “false attacks . motivated by greed.”
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Two brothers on Monday detailed sexual abuse they say they suffered at the hands of the Rev. Michael Pfleger more than four decades ago, with one saying the abuse “destroyed my life.”
But attorneys for the longtime St. Sabina Church pastor have blasted the accusations as “false attacks . . . motivated by greed.”