Thursday, December 6, 2007

Missionary pastor of 54-year-old shot dead in Trinidad

Rousillac (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago), SVM News, December 06, 2007: A missionary pastor of a Full Gospel Church shot dead on December 5 at his residence in Rousillac in Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Lenville Regis (54), an evangelist of Rousillac Open Bible Church and also an ordained pastor was shot dead by a gunman at his house on Wednesday morning.

Pastor Regis was also a retired technician of Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT).

Regis wedded June, a lecturer at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) four months ago and was living at Ibis Circular of Paria Gardens in Rousillac. It was his second marriage with June His children are living abroad.

Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service reports that the gunman stormed the couple's house at about 9.30 in the morning. June was on the phone at that time.

The attacker forced husband and wife into a bedroom where he made them lie on the ground with June Regis being secured with a length of electrical cord. Then he forced the pastor into a nearby bathroom and a gunshot behind his head and murdered at once.

"The gunman ran out of the house while a frantic Mrs June freed herself only to find her husband dead in the bathroom," police officials said.

Nothing was stolen from the house.

The body was taken to the Forensic Science Centre where an autopsy was scheduled to have been done. Investigations are continuing.

SVM News (with picture): http://salemvoice.org/svmnews284.html

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