Four family members murdered at church

BATON ROUGE, La. — Four members of an extended family attending a church service May 21 were killed by a 25-year-old man who then abducted and murdered his wife, later telling emergency police operators she had committed suicide, police said.

A couple of hours after the church shooting, Anthony Devon Bell was apprehended by police at a nearby apartment complex, holding one of his three children, whom he had also forced from the service. The body of his wife, Erica Bell, was found in a car at the complex. By the end of the day, Bell was charged with five counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree kidnapping and one count of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of the church’s pastor.