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12-01-2004, 03:12 AM
Minister Charged In Wife's Slaying
Pascagoula - A Moss Point minister remained in jail without bond Sunday night, charged with capital murder in the Saturday night stabbing death of his wife of more than 20 years.
Amos Hicks Jr. is accused of killing Lena B. Hicks, who at the time was living in Azalea Park Apartments in Pascagoula.
Pascagoula police responded to a call at 8:52 p.m. at the apartments on Eden Street, and at 9:08 p.m. she was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel. Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus has ruled the cause of death as internal hemorrhaging related to a stab wound of the chest.
Police remain tight-lipped about many of the details while the investigation is ongoing.
"It's real complicated, and there is a lot of wrong hearsay on the street," Pascagoula police Capt. Howard Butler said Sunday.
"The husband and wife were separated," Butler said, adding that Amos Hicks came to his wife's apartment with a gun. Four holes were shot in the door, Butler said, but Lena Hicks was not shot. "Others were present, but we won't go into anymore details at this time."
Amos Hicks, 52, is pastor of Church of the Living God, CWFF, a small nondenominational church on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Moss Point. For years, he and his 51-year-old wife lived in a house near the church.
Butler said Hicks cut himself while breaking glass in the front window of the apartment and, badly bleeding, he went to the hospital where he was soon apprehended without incident.
Hicks is being held at the Pascagoula Police Department jail.
Church members attended a prayer service and meeting at the church Sunday morning.
"My heart is hurting. I couldn't believe it when I heard," said a former member who attended the church for 20 years. "Pastor Hicks is a good man and a godly man."
Both Hicks and his wife worked at Northrop Grumman Ingalls Operation. She was a pipefitter, and he reportedly was a machinist.
Church of the Living God, CWFF, Temple No. 297 was organized in 1975 under the pastorate of Elder R.C. Ambrose. The church was remodeled in 2002, including bricking of the exterior and the parsonage on the east side of the church.
"Rev. Hicks is a respected person in the community and we feel really sad about something like this occurring," said Curley Clark, president of the Moss Point-Jackson County NAACP. "I think it is tragic that a person who has lived a lifetime doing good things can let his emotions take over and negate all the good things."
It wasn't known Sunday when Amos Hicks would make his first court appearance.
Pascagoula - A Moss Point minister remained in jail without bond Sunday night, charged with capital murder in the Saturday night stabbing death of his wife of more than 20 years.
Amos Hicks Jr. is accused of killing Lena B. Hicks, who at the time was living in Azalea Park Apartments in Pascagoula.
Pascagoula police responded to a call at 8:52 p.m. at the apartments on Eden Street, and at 9:08 p.m. she was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel. Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus has ruled the cause of death as internal hemorrhaging related to a stab wound of the chest.
Police remain tight-lipped about many of the details while the investigation is ongoing.
"It's real complicated, and there is a lot of wrong hearsay on the street," Pascagoula police Capt. Howard Butler said Sunday.
"The husband and wife were separated," Butler said, adding that Amos Hicks came to his wife's apartment with a gun. Four holes were shot in the door, Butler said, but Lena Hicks was not shot. "Others were present, but we won't go into anymore details at this time."
Amos Hicks, 52, is pastor of Church of the Living God, CWFF, a small nondenominational church on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Moss Point. For years, he and his 51-year-old wife lived in a house near the church.
Butler said Hicks cut himself while breaking glass in the front window of the apartment and, badly bleeding, he went to the hospital where he was soon apprehended without incident.
Hicks is being held at the Pascagoula Police Department jail.
Church members attended a prayer service and meeting at the church Sunday morning.
"My heart is hurting. I couldn't believe it when I heard," said a former member who attended the church for 20 years. "Pastor Hicks is a good man and a godly man."
Both Hicks and his wife worked at Northrop Grumman Ingalls Operation. She was a pipefitter, and he reportedly was a machinist.
Church of the Living God, CWFF, Temple No. 297 was organized in 1975 under the pastorate of Elder R.C. Ambrose. The church was remodeled in 2002, including bricking of the exterior and the parsonage on the east side of the church.
"Rev. Hicks is a respected person in the community and we feel really sad about something like this occurring," said Curley Clark, president of the Moss Point-Jackson County NAACP. "I think it is tragic that a person who has lived a lifetime doing good things can let his emotions take over and negate all the good things."
It wasn't known Sunday when Amos Hicks would make his first court appearance.