Crime & Safety

Providence Baptist Associate Minister Found Fatally Shot Monday at Cascade Road Accounting Office (Updated)

Body of Derek Moses, 56, found inside Moses & Co. Accounting offices about 10 a.m. Monday.

Associate pastor Derek Moses of Providence Missionary Baptist Church was found dead inside his Cascade Road accounting office Monday with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, according to Atlanta police.

Authorities say Moses, 56, was discovered by a co-worker Monday at , 2009 Cascade Rd. Police told GADailyNews.com that the body was discovered shortly before 10 a.m. Monday.

Atlanta Police spokeswoman Kim Jones said in an e-mail report on the incident that, "it appears Moses suffered several gunshot wounds to the head." 

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Officer Jones said that Moses blue BMW was missing from the office location but found later in the day on Montreat Avenue and impounded by police.

Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, senior pastor of Providence, told Fox5-Atlanta Monday that Moses was a devoted family man who also served as an accountant for several local churches.

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Cascade residents were shocked to learn of the incident.

Moses had been involved with Providence Missionary Baptist Church since he was a teenager, Durley said.

Cascade Heights resident Dr. Booker Poe, a member of Providence since 1972, recalled that Moses received an MBA from Columbia University in New York City.

"He was a very nice man," Dr. Poe, a Cascade community pediatrician, said Tuesday. "I'm shocked."

Rev. Durley told Fox-5  that he last saw Moses on Friday night when he did his taxes.  He says Moses didn't show up for church on Sunday, but he didn't think anything of it because of the busy tax season. 

Police say the investigation into Moses death is continuing, and they’re looking for witnesses who might know who may have wanted to do the victim harm. Police particularly want to talk to anyone who might have seen Moses' BMW leaving his office in the last few days. 

Jones said there were no motives or suspects as of 6:58 a.m. Tuesday.

For the full Fox-5 story, go to: Atlanta Minister Shot, Killed in Office. For the full Georgia Daily News report, go to: Police: Associate Pastor Derek Moses Found Dead.

Providence is Cascade Patch's "Church of the Month" for March. Senior correspondent Kimathi Lewis profiled the church on March 13, 2011, in .

Cascade Patch will update this story as more information becomes available.


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