{"id":124967,"date":"2025-03-13T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thencbeat.com\/?p=124967"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:34:49","slug":"memphis-pastor-ricky-floyd-fatally-shot-following-bar-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/memphis-pastor-ricky-floyd-fatally-shot-following-bar-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Pastor Ricky Floyd Fatally Shot Following Bar Altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memphis pastor Ricky Floyd shot<\/h2>\n

Ricky Floyd<\/strong>, the well-known Memphis<\/strong><\/a> pastor who recently eulogized the late “Cussing Pastor”<\/em> Thaddeus Matthews<\/strong>, was fatally following an altercation at Momma\u2019s Bar early Wednesday<\/em> morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Momma\u2019s
Momma\u2019s Bar in Memphis was the site of a tragic shooting early Wednesday morning, leading to the death of Pastor Ricky Floyd. Photo credit: Live5News.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Live5News.com<\/strong><\/a>, the incident occurred just after 1:20 a.m. Witnesses reported that Floyd and 42-year-old Samantha Marion<\/strong> were involved in an argument inside the bar, which later escalated outside. Surveillance footage allegedly captured Floyd throwing Marion\u2019s phone to the ground and tossing a beer can before attempting to leave the scene in his vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Samantha
Samantha Marion, 42, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting Memphis pastor Ricky Floyd outside Momma’s Bar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Samantha\"
Samantha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, Floyd stopped, exited his car, and approached Marion once again. At that moment, Marion shot Floyd. Authorities pronounced Floyd, the pastor of Pursuit of God Transformation Center<\/strong>, dead at the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Pastor
Pastor Ricky Floyd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marion has since been charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection to the shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s unclear what the relationship is between Floyd and the woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In court on Thursday, Marion pleaded not guilty to the shooting. She is being held on a $100,000 bail, with a hearing to consider altering her bail scheduled for Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The shooting remains under investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memphis pastor Ricky Floyd shot Ricky Floyd, the well-known Memphis pastor who recently eulogized the late “Cussing Pastor” Thaddeus Matthews, was fatally following an altercation at Momma\u2019s Bar early Wednesday morning. According to Live5News.com, the incident occurred just after 1:20 a.m. Witnesses reported that Floyd and 42-year-old Samantha Marion were involved in an argument inside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[5220,5221,5222,5223],"class_list":["post-124967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news-and-church-drama","tag-bar-shooting","tag-memphis-news","tag-pastor-ricky-floyd","tag-thaddeus-matthews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}