WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - North Texas authorities say a Baptist pastor and his wife who were struck and killed by a train committed suicide together.
Clay County Sheriff Kenny Lemons says witnesses on the train reported seeing the couple standing and embracing on the tracks in the path of the oncoming train Tuesday night.
The train engineer blew his horn and applied the brakes, but the couple would not get out of the way.
Lemons identifies them as Eldon Earl Johnson, the 69-year-old pastor of Ringgold Baptist Church, and his wife Linda Kay Johnson, who was 61. They lived in Henrietta, Texas.
Authorities did not give a motive for the double suicide.
The church was damaged in wildfires that nearly destroyed the town of Ringgold in January 2006.
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Sheriff: Pastor and wife hit by train committed suicide
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - North Texas authorities say a Baptist pastor and his wife who were struck and killed by a train committed suicide together.
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Published: July 03, 2009
Published: July 03, 2009
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