MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) –
A church family is mourning the loss of their pastor after his body was found near a pond in the 3400 block of Lichterman Street in the Hickory Hill neighborhood on Saturday morning.
According to investigators, paramedics said the 57-year-old victim, Don Smith, died on the scene.
Investigators say Smith was shot and that his death is being investigated as a homicide.
According to his family, he was a pastor at Prospect Park Missionary Baptist Church on Millbranch Avenue in Whitehaven.