Woman on trial for pastor's murder claims he seduced her during counseling session

LaToshia Daniels, a woman on trial for the 2019 murder of Brodes Perry, who served as associate pastor at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, claims he seduced her during a counseling session at a previous church and told her that he and his wife were in an open marriage.

Daniels, 46, is on trial for first-degree murder and attempted murder in the April 4, 2019, shooting at the Perrys’ apartment in Collierville, Tennessee. The late pastor’s widow, Tabatha Archie, testified in court on Tuesday that she met Daniels through a church in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the time, Perry, who blogged about his work, was serving as pastor of assimilation at Saint Mark Baptist Church in Little Rock.

“I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. I placed my faith, trust, and hope in Him at an early age, realizing that I was a sinner who deserved death, hell, and the grave. But by His amazing grace, and His finished worked [sic] on Calvary’s cross and in a Jerusalem cemetery has purchased my salvation,” Perry declared on his blog.

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