Reports say a pastor who was preparing for a Memorial Day sermon has been wounded in a drive-by shooting on Sunday, May 24.
54-yr-old Augustus Sealy was left with with three gunshot wounds to the shoulder and leg outside First Church of Nazarene, where authorities found him lying in the street, according to the Hartford Courant.
The shooting had occurred at about 6:30 a.m.
A witness who spoke to authorities said he had been planting flags in the grass for his church’s Memorial Day sermon when a black Nissan Altima slowed down to fire about seven shots before speeding off, a witness told authorities.
“It’s very sad,” Marthe Simpini told WFSB-TV. “If a pastor can’t be safe, I guess we can’t be safe either.”
Sealy, a resident of Shrewsbury, Mass., is listed as serious, but stable condition at a local hospital, the Courant added.
A note on the church’s website asked its 220 members to keep the pastor and his family in their prayers.
The second shooting reported only 15 minutes later left another man wounded with several gunshot injuries, though it’s not clear if the encounters are related.
The second victim is 27-year-old Robert Jones, of Hartford.
"A Sunday morning shooting at this hour is rare. For two to come in is an anomaly," Hartford Deputy Chief Brian J. Foley told the Courant.
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