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Personal, job woes dogged pastor before shooting (AP)
lengthy article at the link aboveGardendale AL - (AP) Church members and friends knew the Rev. Terry Greer as a joyful fellow with thick white hair and a quick smile. "Hello, you beautiful people!" he often told his congregation at the start of a sermon.
For years, Greer, 53, seemed to be a model pastor. He landed a prime job with one of north Alabama's largest United Methodist congregations. Colleagues praised him as a preacher. Congregants called his marriage to wife Lisa loving.
But health problems forced him from the pulpit, and he was haunted by what his lawyer calls personal, psychological and professional struggles.
Now, friends and colleagues are struggling to understand how Greer ended up charged with killing his wife and wounding their daughter during a shooting in their church-owned home Jan. 10.
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"It was a perfect storm of personal and professional problems," said Henry Lagman, lawyer for Greer.
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"He's in a very dark place," Lagman said. "I think the real question is how he got there."
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