Posted on 06/08/2014 8:26:26 AM PDT by Morgana
A California youth pastor has been charged with murder after a fight with a Las Vegas man last year ultimately led to his death.
Robert Cox of Manteca, California was just passing through Sin City last June when he stopped for a late dinner with his church group en route to Texas.
There he encountered 55-year-old Link Ellingson. A scuffle broke out in which Cox pushed Ellingson over, causing him to hit his head.
After a six-month coma, Ellingson died from brain hemorrhaging. Now, police are holding the beloved pastor responsible for his death even as members of his family and congregation maintain he was acting in self defense.
Cox, a pastor at The Place of Refuge church, was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on Tuesday on murder and fugitive from justice charges.
He's awaiting extradition to Nevada. An autopsy report said blunt head trauma from the fight was a significant contributing factor.
Cox was on a ministry trip to Texas with his wife and some church interns when they stopped at the Four Kegs pub on June 13, 2013. Group members said they were in the parking lot when Ellingson approached, threatened them and assaulted them.
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Its Clark County Nevada that is going after him. Not San Joaquin County California (which is my county, I live close to Manteca). He just lives in Manteca.
The dead guy.Click on the link to see his photo.Like I said...my first thought was "steroids".As for booze...yah,particularly at that hour booze could have been a factor with one or both of them.That's why I mentioned a toxicology screen in an earlier post.If,by chance,I'm right about the steroids *and* he was shown to have been drunk that's double trouble IMO.
Rumor has it that Dirty Harry himself hails from Sin City...or very close by.
If it happened in Las Vegas then WHY are we aware of it?!
There goes the tourism campaign theme!!
How bout a new motto: “What happens in Las Vegas will be judged by the King of Kings!”
It read that way to me, as well.
Umm ..apparently, what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas.
Word of this incident may reach even as far as Heaven (and Hell).
The dead guy was probably politically connected.
Dude It sounded to me like he was drunk and wanted to F-— the pastor. Now maybe I misunderstood what the kids were saying but that was my take.
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