A prominent Tyler pastor who also has an award for "non-violent social change" named after him, was arrested after accusations that he stole money from an elderly couple and opened bank accounts without the church's consent came to light.
A grand jury in Smith County indicted 21 year old Mytrez Deunte Woolen on a capital murder charge in the death of Starrville Methodist Church Pastor 62-year-old Mark Allen McWilliams.
The pastor of a church on Van Highway in Tyler went on a recent mission trip to Africa and came back with a fever, chills, and body aches severe enough to land him in the hospital for four days. But he says he would do it all over again.