Arrest made in murder of pastor's pregnant wife
Indiana teenager arrested in connection with the rape and murder of Amanda Blackburn
Pastor Davey Blackburn, whose pregnant 28-year-old wife, Amanda, was murdered less than a year ago, told Pastor Perry Noble and the congregation at NewSpring Church that he chooses "worship over worry."
Blackburn accompanied Noble onstage this past Sunday as part of NewSpring's "You've Got What It Takes" series, detailing the horrific experience of returning home from the gym on November 10, 2015, to find his wife, who was three months pregnant, lying on the floor with multiple gunshot wounds.
Amanda had been at home with the couple's 15-month-old son when three young men, Larry Jo Taylor Jr., 18; Jalen Watson, 21; and Diano Gordon, 24, entered through an unlocked door in a robbery attempt.
Local media outlets have since reported that Taylor admitted to a "cooperative individual" that he had shot Amanda when she charged at him during the invasion.
Blackburn told Noble that when he first returned home on that morning, he thought something had gone terribly wrong with Amanda's pregnancy, as he found her in a pool of blood. It was not until he got her to the hospital that he was told about her three gunshot wounds.
"Honestly I don't really know how to describe emotions that go through you in that moment," Blackburn says of the early moments of finding out what happened, saying he felt a lot of "shock and adrenaline."
"I didn't know what had happened and I think that was kind of the grace of God in that moment," Blackburn added.
The young pastor, who planted Resonate Church with Amanda in Indianapolis in 2012, goes on to say that there was a period of 24 hours at the hospital where medical personnel were running tests on Amanda to determine her brain activity.
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