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   Authorities said they’ve arrested a Florida man suspected of   
   killing his wife and another woman and then going to the church   
   where his wife worked as the children’s director and fatally   
   shooting the church’s pastor.   
      
   Andres “Andy” Avalos, 33, was arrested Saturday afternoon, the   
   Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said. Avalos was taken into   
   custody without incident at a mobile home park and has been   
   charged with murder, sheriff’s spokesman Dave Bristow told the   
   Associated Press in an email. Avalos was being held without   
   bond, the official said.   
      
   The Bradenton Herald initially reported the arrest, noting that   
   authorities suspect Avalos in Thursday’s killings of his wife,   
   Amber Avalos; the pastor of Bayshore Baptist Church, James   
   “Tripp” Battle, and a neighbor, Denise Potter.   
      
   Battle was fatally shot in the courtyard of his Bradenton   
   church, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Potter and Amber Avalos   
   were fatally shot earlier at the Avalos home, the paper added.   
      
   Battle’s father told the Times that Andres Avalos arrived at the   
   church Thursday, spoke to Battle’s wife, Joy, the church   
   secretary, and then got to Pastor Battle.   
      
   “Joy saw it, she witnessed it, and he pumped a number of rounds   
   into Tripp,” Jimmy Battle told the Times.   
      
   More from the Times:   
      
   Amber Avalos, 33, had worked at the church for about nine months   
   or a year, according to Battle. He said she had six kids and   
   Tripp, 31, had tried to counsel her and her husband, who seemed   
   paranoid. Battle said Andres Avalos “started getting these wild   
   notions about every man that walked by” his wife.   
      
   “He was incoherent most all the time,” Jimmy Battle told the   
   Times. “He always thought people were trying to do something   
   they weren’t.”   
      
   According to the Herald, Battle’s family has been upset that   
   some media outlets have used “crime of passion” to characterize   
   the murders.   
      
   Battle’s mother Rhonda added that if her son had counseled Amber   
   Avalos, the two of them wouldn’t have been alone.   
      
   “Tripp was always careful to always have someone else present,”   
   she told the Herald.   
      
   Along with his wife, Battle leaves behind a 5-year-old daughter   
   and 2-year-old son.   
      
   The church will hold a regular service on Sunday morning with an   
   interim pastor, according to WFLA-TV.   
      
   “We want the world to know what a wonderful man our son was,”   
   Rhonda Battle told the Herald. “He loved this community. He   
   wanted a church of diversity. He wanted people to love the Lord.   
   If you didn’t want to know what the Bible said, you didn’t want   
   to go to his church.”   
      
   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/07/florida-triple-murder-   
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   absolutely-devastated/   
      
        
      
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