Indiana Pastor Charged with Trying to Have Sex with Minor Hangs Himself in Georgia Storage Unit

By Jade R. Gardener
New York Daily News
June 29, 2016

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/pastor-charged-sex-minor-hangs-article-1.2693235

David James Brown, a pastor from Indiana, hanged himself in a Georgia storage unit. (COURTESY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE)

A disgraced Indiana pastor who was charged with soliciting sex with a minor hanged himself in a Georgia storage unit.

David James Brown, 46, was found dead from a suicide around 12:10 p.m. Monday inside the Attic Self Storage in Marietta, said Cobb County spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce.

The death was ruled a suicide by asphyxiation by hanging, officials said.

Brown, who was a senior pastor at First Christian Church in Jeffersonville, was arrested on June 15 for the depraved act in Kentucky.

According to office of Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, Brown became the subject of an undercover investigation created by the Cyber Crime unit, when he posed as a minor on the online messaging app, KIK.

On the day of his arrest, Brown drove more than 65 miles from Jeffersonville, Ind. to Frankfort, Kentucky with the intent of having sex with a minor he met on the app.

Upon his arrival Brown and another man, Anwar Mohammed, 33, a medical researcher at the University of Louisville, met face to face with an undercover officer from Kentucky’s Cyber Crime Unit. They were then arrested.

Brown was booked in the Franklin County Regional Jail on one count of prohibited use of an electronic communication system for the purpose of procuring a minor for a sex offense.

On June 20, Brown was released on $10,000 bond and scheduled to appear back in court on Tuesday June 28 for a secondary hearing.

Rather than stay in Indiana, Chad Bosecker, a youth pastor at First Christian Church told the Daily News that Brown went to Georgia with family.

“We were deeply saddened to learn yesterday about the tragic passing of Dave Brown," Bosecker said. "Please pray for his family and our church.”

It is not yet known whether or not the pastor’s body will return to Jeffersonville, Indiana for a funeral at the church Brown once led.