Greg McDowell reportedly saw his killer approach before he was gunned down as he led Bible study at Creflo Dollar’s World Changers church in College Park on Wednesday. McDowell, 39, was pronounced dead at South Fulton hospital following the 10:30 a.m. shooting. The suspected shooter, Floyd Palmer, 59, was taken into custody hours later outside Macy’s at Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead, north of Atlanta.
Court records obtained by WSB-TV reveal the former World Changers employee was committed to a mental hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in 2001 after pleading not criminally responsible for shooting another man.
A witness told WSB-TV that Palmer followed the unidentified man outside and shot him for no apparent reason.
Court records show Palmer was released from the mental hospital a year later with unspecified 5 year conditions. The 2001 victim is paralyzed, according to a family member.
Palmer was divorced from the now deceased mother of his two grown daughters. He lived alone in a sparsely furnished College Park apartment. Police say they don’t know why Palmer shot McDowell and they are investigating whether the two men knew each other.
Hours after the shooting, a witness spotted Palmer’s black Subaru station wagon in the Lenox Mall parking lot. Another witness told WSB-TV that Palmer walked into the Starbucks next door to Macy’s and ordered a coffee drink. Palmer reportedly went to Lenox Mall to turn himself in to mall security, but they didn’t know who he was.
Creflo Dollar, who founded World Changers non-denominational church in 1986, was briefed on the shooting at his church Wednesday morning.
“While I was in my morning briefing I got a report that some shots took place over here in the chapel,” Dollar told his congregation during a service Wednesday night. Dollar described McDowell as “One of our very faithful, loving, kind servant, volunteer.
“That’s not God’s will for a husband to be taken away from his wife and family. That’s not God’s will,” Dollar said of the father of two young sons.
Dollar added: God is good, heaven is real and to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord.
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Guns guns and more guns…
Auntie how can u shoot someone and plea not criminally responsible?
#seriousquestion
Morning Roses and Thorns
nerp..
When I saw the report on his previous history and record I was
and 
May God comfort all parties involved
I can’t even imagine what is wife and children are going through right now.
Good Morning
O so he been fcked up…ok
God is good, heaven is real and to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord.
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AMEN
Wonders if Palmers ex wife and Greg had something going on and lunatic didn’t like it.
Sad Sad and more Sad!!!!!
SO BASICALLY ALL OF US NEED TO BE WORRIED ABOUT OUR SAFETY CAUSE MOFOS ARE RANDOMLY SHOOTING FOLKS FOR THE HELL OF IT, NO ARGUMENT, YOU DIDN’T CUT EM OFF ON THE EXPRESSWAY, BASICALLY UNPROVOKED
SHIAT IS CRAZY
This is sooooooo sad. So…he was released upon an unsuspecting society…only to do it again??!!
I pray for his family. I hope that mega-minister helps the family out!
Divurrr
Milkayyy
Bad
dude on right almost look like Ceelo Greene.
“Palmer was divorced from the now deceased mother of his two grown daughters…”
I wonder how SHE died?
I keep sayin..they need to do a background on folks in the church too..jus cuz they in the church dont mean their good people..
Angiegirl says:
Auntie how can u shoot someone and plea not criminally responsible? #seriousquestion
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I it possible. If there was no motive leading up to it and he just Kirked out, rolled up to a place he felt wronged him and shot the first thing he saw… its possible.
Where he shot him was the old chapel where they use to have service before the dome was built. I believe he went there because thats were he use to be important to the church a while back. When he lost it he went back there. He proll looked up and actually saw Pastor Dollar instead of Greg.
INTENSEMOCHA THE ANTAGONIST says:
SO BASICALLY ALL OF US NEED TO BE WORRIED ABOUT OUR SAFETY CAUSE MOFOS ARE RANDOMLY SHOOTING FOLKS FOR THE HELL OF IT, NO ARGUMENT, YOU DIDN’T CUT EM OFF ON THE EXPRESSWAY, BASICALLY UNPROVOKED SHIAT IS CRAZY
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On the DAILY!!!!!!! People don’t give a fucc…many people are just suicidal and don’t care so they will take you out with them
Cycle repeats itself
mzwhang get out of my head i was thinkin the same thing. becuz he is in his fifties she couldnt have been too old!
LuVn Dahhhhhhhhhhhhhling *Eartha Kit voice*
Milky, wut it do guhl
just a plain ole nutjob
Angiegirl says:
Auntie how can u shoot someone and plea not criminally responsible?
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because he was mentally ill, and still is.
yanibunny02 says:
I keep sayin..they need to do a background on folks in the church too..jus cuz they in the church dont mean their good people..
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Exactly….starting with the pulpit!
Jimmy Johns has $1 subs today!!!
Angiegirl says:
Auntie how can u shoot someone and plea not criminally responsible?
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insanity
Angiegirl says:
Jimmy Johns has $1 subs today!!!
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I’ll pass on that hard azz bread!!! :wave: Hey Angiegirl
Sandra Rose says:
Angiegirl says:
Auntie how can u shoot someone and plea not criminally responsible?
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because he was mentally ill, and still is.
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Maybe I watch too many TV shows, but I thought even though u escape real jail for mental illness u spend the time u would have spent in jail in the mental institution…..is that not right?
MzWhang’s dog decided to channel ms Onika Miraj today I see
Bedazzled His Razzle says:
MzWhang’s dog decided to channel ms Onika Miraj today I see
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Whang Minaj
I have never eaten at Jimmy Johns
Mentally Ill people are everywhere both in and outside the church. Alot of churches these days have counseling minstries w/licensed therapist. The Black church has come a LONG way as it relates to promoting mental health treatment.
@WUT and Naija, that just seem so wrong
@Diva….
Bottoms up
Bottoms up, UP
hey whats in yuh cup
Daisy says:
I have never eaten at Jimmy Johns
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You ain’t missing much IMO!!!!
Now from my eye witness Greg was conducting corporate prayer. He wasn’t aware he was getting ready to be shot. He didn’t see Min. Palmer as a threat. His position before the first shot was his eyes were closed and he was praying with his hands stretched to God. Now if you saw a man walking up the isle with a gun, would you still be in the line of fire? I don’t think any of them saw the gun before it was too late.
I volunteer with the kids twice a week at my church and we all had to get government fingerprinted. The actual employees get FBI screened as well. If something comes back, they don’t kick you out of the church as a parishioner but, you can’t work or volunteer there for safety reasons.
Morning everyone
I have nothing for this story and for the post downstairs 
that is all 
Angiegirl says:
@WUT and Naija, that just seem so wrong
@Diva….
Bottoms up
Bottoms up, UP
hey whats in yuh cup
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(doing the butt)
Razzyyyyyyy
@ Sandra…can we get a post on the crude remarks Sara Palin made about Prez Obama?
With her sea hag lookin self.
@ Milkayyy #19….They betta exhume the body like they do on the ID Channel. Dude even looks kinda “you goin to jail now!”
ReadingIsFundamental says:
I volunteer with the kids twice a week at my church and we all had to get government fingerprinted. The actual employees get FBI screened as well. If something comes back, they don’t kick you out of the church as a parishioner but, you can’t work or volunteer there for safety reasons.
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Now your church is on top of things sounds like! 
GM errybodies!
:wave: hey Jenie!
Hey Fay Fay
Angiegirl says:
Maybe I watch too many TV shows, but I thought even though u escape real jail for mental illness u spend the time u would have spent in jail in the mental institution…..is that not right?
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you stay in the mental institution until you’re ‘cured’ and they feel you can function in society again…sad but true
& may this poor man RIP
I wonder if creflo and his 2 front teeth will monetarily take care of the man’s 2 children.
Hey Diva
Diva says:
Daisy says:
I have never eaten at Jimmy Johns
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You ain’t missing much IMO!!!!
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me no likey jimmy johns
DIROOOO! we used to play that song out!
“Hey sexah sexah!!”
NaijaGal says:
you stay in the mental institution until you’re ‘cured’ and they feel you can function in society again…sad but true
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right Naij…
And some folks are only “cured” as long as they take their psych meds as prescribed. But once they are no longer hospitialized (monitered)…they stop takin em and..well…all HELL breaks loose.
Tragedy!
Sandra Rose says:
Angiegirl says:
Auntie how can u shoot someone and plea not criminally responsible?
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because he was mentally ill, and still is
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AND HE WAS BRINGING THE WORD OF GOD TO FOLKS??????
Bedazzled His Razzle says:
DIROOOO! we used to play that song out!
“Hey sexah sexah!!”
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That’s still the jammy JAM!
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD……THERE ARE EXACTLY TWO MONTHS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
FayFay (u are W.R.O.N.G. for that gravi!)
JenEEE
Pryn
mzwhang90210 says:
NaijaGal says:
you stay in the mental institution until you’re ‘cured’ and they feel you can function in society again…sad but true
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right Naij…
And some folks are only “cured” as long as they take their psych meds as prescribed. But once they are no longer hospitialized (monitered)…they stop takin em and..well…all HELL breaks loose.
Tragedy!
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Like with that bunk azz move The Number 23…
@ diva It is but
Hey Prynn, Gotta get my Christmas list togetha!
Trendsetter says:
Diva says:
Daisy says:
I have never eaten at Jimmy Johns
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You ain’t missing much IMO!!!!
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me no likey jimmy johns
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I only like their tuna on their multigrain bread. I hate their rolls.. nayesty
Oh almost forgot! @Trend I tried putting up the picture of the doll with it’s boobies showing but the cropping portion cut it off as i tried to keep the words in
It would have went well with the words 
I only like their tuna on their multigrain bread. I hate their rolls.. nayesty
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oh neh-mind 
speaking of nayesty…
@Wut…you got me scratching my head!!
@It is but
Razzle & MzWhang
what da prollum ill? 
@Fay you no likey Kimmy K??
Have y’all heard this song “Sweet As Whole” by Sara Bareilles
this song goes so hard I’m gonna look the lyrics up and post them!
@FayFay…I was tawkin bout that gravi with those freeway lane spaces betwix the cornrows!! It’s changed now…but u wuz WRONG fo dat!!
Mental Institutions are nothing but wherehouses. They keep the clients/inmates so doped up on meds, easier to deal with..
Sometimes I can be perfectly sweet
Got the sugary me all stuffed up in my sleeve
And I’ll talk of ponies and rainbows and things
And I’m just who you want me to be
Like most creatures down here on the ground
I’m composed of the elements moving around
But I grow and change and I shift and I switch
And it turns out I’m actually kind of a bytch
But that only happens when I get provoked
By some piece of shyt azzhole we all sadly know
And I sit and I write while reminding you all
That mean songs are still better than going postal
That guy’s an azzhole
And that girl’s a bytch
Baby it’s natural
No getting away from it
So sing it out with me
And then let it go
Fck that guy he’s just an azzhole
And so I surprised you with some of my words
And I know that surprises, while fine, still can hurt
Whatever. I hate to think I have ruined the day
You’re the dack and the queen of the high horse parade
But I’m sick and tired of your poisonous ways
You’re a toxin wasting perfectly good space
And I say what I think
‘Cause it’s more economic than drugs or a drink
That guy’s an azzhole
And that girl’s a bytch
Baby it’s natural
No getting away from it
So sing it out with me
And then let it go
Fck that guy he’s just an azzhole
And I won’t let him in
Under my skin
He’s a sad sack of shyt
It’s pathetic
Just a festering sore
That will never be more than that
If I don’t let him
That guy’s an azzhole
And that girl’s a bytch
Baby it’s natural
No getting away from it
So sing it out with me
And then let it go
Fck that guy he’s just an azzhole
@Razzle, that song is EXACTLY
Dammit, as I was saying, that song is EXACTLY
Dammit, as I was saying, that song is EXACTLY
Wang hi hunny >>>>>>>
<<<– the dog's wig 
Diva
Folks without criminal history commit crimes all the time.
Jen-Nay!
whoeva BRAIDED that chit was wrong fa dat! 
Razzle hail nawl!
MzWhang
AWESOME says:
Folks without criminal history commit crimes all the time.
true!
sup bew?
@Razzle I was tryyyyinnng (to hard evidently) to say, that song is EXACTLY how I’m feeling right now, might have to check that out…
I swear this site likes deleting fonts and chit.
Razzle
Man will deal 
i done changed it anyway
(AP)- A Delaware woman who pleaded guilty but mentally ill in a 1999 murder case is asking the state Board of Pardons to commute her life sentence.
Adrianne R. Young planned to represent herself without a lawyer at Thursday’s hearing.
Young was charged in the murder of William J. McGinley. According to court records, she went to McGinley’s house armed with a gun, knowing he wanted to have sex with her and intending to rob him.
After the jury in the case announced that it was hopelessly deadlocked, a judge preparing for a second trial concluded that Young was suffering from clinical depression and allowed her to plead guilty but mentally ill. In exchange, prosecutors withdrew a petition for the death penalty.
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This ^^^^^^ is what should have happened to dude up top the first time and than there probably wouldn’t have been a 2nd time…
so who else is side-eying their yt friends for their romney support?
@Boot only when provoked! lol
@fay Yes I see!
Fayla aka IWhipIt..WhipItRealGood:) says:
so who else is side-eying their yt friends for their romney support?
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@Razzle, a chick was definetly provoked last night…and I had liquor in me too
Fayfay- my friend (alabaster) husband LOVES Romney and she love Obama. My FB friends (alabaster) that love Romney. The stuff they post give me the runs. As a woman, how can one support Romney?
ZOE
that’s exactly what i’m saying sug. ESP my FB friends. i put a post up one time asking WHO exactly conservatives were referring to when they say “let’s take america back” i’m like when did it get kidnapped & who’s got it now? 
2 responded. one is a good friend & is a repub BUT is supporting :obama:
the other just gave some generic ass answer :rollseyes: & didnt get into the REAL questions i was asking…
AWESOME
i said the SAME damn thing when i saw that pic yo!
Did anyone watch Half-ton killer last night on TLC???
Boot
what’s that about?
i was catching up on “Are We There Yet” episodes
THAT show cracks me the hell UP!
all this evil ass halloween candy is fuggin wit my weigh-loss tho
Opening scene of The Wire, Season 4 with Snoop buying the nail gun never gets old….
The demons are loose!.. Stay covered my people! The enemy comes in all diguises even through your family and friends!!!
Fayla aka IWhipIt..WhipItRealGood:) says:
AWESOME says:
Folks without criminal history commit crimes all the time.
true!
sup bew?
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RIGHTTTTTTT they just never got caught…. until the shiiiiiit hits the fan
This story is really sad.
@Fayla aka IWhipIt..WhipItRealGood:) says:
Boot
what’s that about?
i was catching up on “Are We There Yet” episodes
THAT show cracks me the hell UP!
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Are we there yet is funny, i don’t know why people online say it’s not. it’s a really good show. I have over 30 episodes to get through.
LORD please help us all!