[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] The husband of a former Miss America contestant was gunned down in front of his wife and young son while educating poverty-stricken strangers about Christianity.
According to DailyMail.com, Thomas Hand Jr., a born-again Christian, was spreading information about the powers of God in an Alabama neighborhood with his beauty queen wife and their two-year-old child Roman on Saturday — days after the couple celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary — when a man who was mumbling walked up and shot him. Related: Was Siegfried & Roy Tiger Attack Actually Attempted Murder?! His wife, Christine Kozlowski Hand, confirmed the tragic news to the outlet, sharing: Wow… no words.
Police said a 17-year-old was arrested in the shooting and faces a charge of capital murder in Hand’s death. The suspect was later named as Jerimiah Walker of Montgomery, where the shooting took place.
After discovering God in 2018, Thomas, a former competitive bodybuilder, and his former Miss Mississippi wife made it a Saturday tradition to visit low-income areas in Alabama and share religious teachings.
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