MARYVILLE, ILL. (AP) -- The southwestern Illinois church where a pastor was gunned down during a Sunday sermon in March now has an interim replacement.
Thomas Huffy will be the 1,500-member First Baptist Church of Maryville's pastor while the church searches for a permanent successor to the Rev. Fred Winters.
Huffy lately has been interim pastor at First Baptist Church in O'Fallon, Mo., and spent 13 years as an associate pastor at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty, Mo.
Associate pastors have managed the Maryville church since Winters was shot to death March 8, allegedly by 27-year-old Terry Sedlacek (SEHD'-lak) of Troy.
Sedlacek has no apparent connection to the church or to Winters.
A not guilty plea has been entered on Sedlacek's behalf.
Information from: Belleville News-Democrat, http://www.bnd.com
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