Plaintiffs allege memberships were thrown out ahead of vote of those in favor of keeping the building of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs.
A lawsuit filed on May 17 alleges memberships were thrown out before a vote was made on what to do with the old church building.Twenty-six members of the small congregation were killed and 22 others were injured.The result was 66 to 33 in favor of tearing it down.
The grandmother that Crowder referred to is Sherry Pomeroy, the wife of former Pastor Frank Pomeroy. The Pomeroys helped Crowder’s mother when she was a teen and Crowder has always referred to them as her grandparents.“I don’t know what Aimee thinks she saw,” Pomeroy said in a Zoom interview. “The membership was in a computer, it’s not like you just go in and rip things out.”
He said church attorneys advised him not to participate in the vote personally to avoid future issues, which he said he complied with. “I don’t think it matters about what all the new members think about what should happen to the church, it only matters of what the survivors and the victims’ families think about it,” Crowder said.
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