An Ohio pastor was shot and killed as he was conducting church services on Sunday morning, with the suspected gunman being his brother, police said.
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2 NEWS is learning a bit more the nature of the domestic dispute that existed between the brothers through Montgomery County Commons Pleas Court documents we obtained.
In this January 2011 photo, the Rev. William B. Schooler poses for a photo in Dayton, Ohio.
Dayton Municipal Court officials say the 68-year-old has not been formally charged and instead, may be arraigned Tuesday.
The shooting took place about 12:20 p.m.at St. Peters Missionary Baptist Church, police said.
His brother, Daniel Gregory Schooler, 68, was arrested at the scene and taken to the Montgomery County jail.
The Rev. Schooler was shot multiple times inside the church and was dead when law enforcement officers and emergency personnel arrived at the scene, according to Dayton police.
Dr. William Schooler (L) and his brother Daniel Schooler (R).
Police have said they don’t know what led to the shooting.
Authorities investigating the slaying of a southwest OH pastor expect to charge his brother in the fatal shooting that occurred at the pastor’s church office as services were winding down.
The choir at St Peter’s Missionary Baptist Church, in the city of Dayton, was singing the first of two hymns and the Rev William Schooler, 70, had retired to his office when his brother, Daniel, rose and followed him towards the back of the church, congregants said.
According to the Dayton Daily News, Schooler, a 1963 graduate of Dunbar High School and a decorated Vietnam veteran who received the Bronze Star, was also a former Dayton Board of Education member.
William Schooler joined community leaders in June 2013 to protest PNC closing a branch in the Westown Shopping Center.
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“I just got everybody out of the church and we just kept hearing shooting and shooting”, parishioner Alberta Blayth told the Dayton Daily News.
