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At first this may seem to be a person sharing the worst information he may have gotten together with his group. However each new element makes this story a lot sketchier…
John-Paul Miller is a pastor on the Strong Rock Church in Myrtle Seashore, South Carolina. He shocked his flock final Sunday, April 28 by asserting the dying of his estranged second spouse, Mica Miller. He stated, apparently fairly matter-of-factly:
“I obtained a name late final evening, my spouse has handed away. It was self-induced and it was up in North Carolina.”
He then gave everybody particulars about her memorial service and informed them to not discuss concerning the announcement anymore throughout the church. Bizarre. Additionally bizarre? He was exceptionally fast to label his ex’s shockingly sudden dying a suicide. He even added that “she wasn’t properly mentally”:
“Y’all pray for me and my youngsters and all people. You all knew she wasn’t properly mentally and he or she wanted drugs that was onerous to get to her. I’m certain there shall be extra particulars to come back, however maintain her household in your prayers.”
In contrast to all his different sermons, this one isn’t accessible to observe on the Strong Rock YouTube web page anymore — nevertheless it’s the web, and somebody obtained a duplicate anyway. See for your self (beneath):
He additionally spoke to native outlet WPDE, telling them the identical — simply actually speaking surprisingly candidly about her suicide, and her previous struggles with it:
“She had struggled with suicide earlier than. Every time we might assist her by way of it and take her to the physician, and we obtained by way of it and all the things was advantageous. She even gave just a few testimonies right here at church that we have now on video. She battled suicide however God took care of her and obtained her by way of it.”
He additionally informed the outlet:
“She was most likely the best spouse anybody may ask for. She was extremely affirming. We spent each evening collectively for hours simply speaking and speaking and speaking.”
Terrible information… besides… Proper now the general public solely has his phrase this was a suicide. Robeson County Sheriff’s Workplace Main Damien McLean would solely inform the native ABC affiliate that there was an investigation into the dying of the 30-year-old, saying:
“Officers are within the means of gathering info from folks in South and North Carolina as a part of their investigation into how Miller died.”
No official reason for dying has been launched.
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Native NC outlet The Robesonian was the primary to report any precise particulars of Mica’s April 27 dying, saying she was discovered with a gunshot wound to the top at Lumber River State Park in Lumberton (about an hour and a half north of Myrtle Seashore). However they’ve since taken down their article! Everybody else was citing them for these deets. Why did they take that down? Did the cops inform them it’s too quickly?
In the meantime right here you’ve got this Pastor simply telling anybody who will hear how his spouse positively died by suicide. If police weren’t certain but, wouldn’t you suppose a partner would need to wait and be 100% certain, too?? Why would a husband be so forthcoming about such a private matter anyway? Appears a bit of odd, proper?
Odder nonetheless? In all his discuss spending each evening collectively speaking with Mica, he didn’t point out she’d filed for divorce from him simply weeks earlier. Yeah. Clearly their marriage was not as lovey-dovey as he makes out. And he or she has zero images of him left on her Fb, apparently having deleted all the things earlier than March. And but he was the one who wrote her obituary. An obituary with strains about what spouse she was to him:
“She really served Jesus and her husband with all of her coronary heart. She would reward her husband after each church service telling him he was the perfect preacher on the planet (even when it wasn’t true). She additionally informed him he was the funniest preacher on the planet (despite the fact that that wasn’t true both).”
Man, this man actually made her obit all about himself. Ugh. This all simply appears so sus to us! No marvel her family members are asking for a full investigation! Her buddy Kenn Younger informed WPDE:
“This must be at the least appeared into deeply. There’s obtained to be some accountability right here.”
He made some extent of claiming “it’s not simply so simple as psychological well being points.” So what the heck is he speaking about??
Effectively, Mica herself began referring to “abuse” in posts made shortly earlier than her dying. Actually, there are ONLY posts from shortly earlier than her dying. As talked about, she appears to have wiped all the things earlier than mid-March! However round that point she posted a video wherein she talks about “going by way of abuse and harm.” She additionally talks about “leaving a harmful scenario”:
See that hashtag? #AbuseAwareness? One thing was occurring! She additionally posted simply three weeks earlier than her dying:
“When horrible horrible TERRIBLE issues occur to you… (yall know what I’m speaking about 😉 RPF: resting peace face #stillblessed #Godisgood”
She wrote that she was “nonetheless blessed”? And at peace? Hmm.
And in her personal publish asserting Mica’s dying, her sister made certain to say she “didn’t deserve the abuse she endured.” Whoa.
That leads us to what we’ve seen on social media that we can’t confirm. We’ve seen a number of ladies claiming to be former members of the Strong Rock church and pals of Mica personally who’re accusing her ex — the pastor — of grooming, of stalking, of bodily and psychological abuse. We will’t confirm any of it, clearly, nevertheless it’s stunning stuff. And if we have been the cops investigating the case, we positively could be reaching out to speak to those folks. Learn for your self HERE and HERE and HERE if you wish to dig deeper. However bear in mind to maintain a wholesome sense of skepticism as these allegations haven’t been vetted.
We simply hope the reality is discovered — and Mica will get all of the justice she deserves.
In case you or somebody you already know is considering suicide, assist is offered. Contemplate contacting the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org.
In case you or somebody you already know is experiencing home violence, assist is offered. Contemplate calling the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or textual content START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org/.
[Image via Solid Rock Church/YouTube/Mica Miller/Facebook.]
