--- title: Ohio Pastor Shot Dead During Sunday Church Services description: An Ohio pastor was shot and killed while delivering services from the pulpit of a Dayton church on Sunday. canonical: https://time.com/4240427/ohio-pastor-shot-dead-church/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-28T21:40:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-15T05:10:39.000Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Ohio Pastor Shot Dead During Sunday Church Services og:description: The shooter is allegedly the pastor's brother og:url: https://time.com/4240427/ohio-pastor-shot-dead-church/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ohio Pastor Shot Dead During Sunday Church Services twitter:description: The shooter is allegedly the pastor's brother twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ohio Pastor Shot Dead During Sunday Church Services  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 15, 2023 5:10 AM CUTPublished: Feb 28, 2016 9:40 PM CUT  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 15, 2023 5:10 AM CUTPublished: Feb 28, 2016 9:40 PM CUT **Correction appended, Feb. 29** An Ohio pastor[ was shot and killed in his office ](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ohio-pastor-shot-killed-sunday-services-37260838 "undefined")at a Dayton church on Sunday. Witnesses said the suspected gunman is the pastor’s brother, who has been taken into custody, according to the Associated Press. The pastor was killed as a service in the church concluded, the AP reports. There were more than 20 people inside the St. Peter’s Missionary Baptist Church when the violence erupted about 12:30 p.m. and sent congregants running, [according to WDTN](http://wdtn.com/2016/02/28/police-called-to-shooting-at-dayton-church/ "undefined"). The news station identified the pastor as 70-year-old William Schooler. Police later identified the brother as Daniel Gregory Schooler, 69, [according to WHIO](http://www.whio.com/news/news/crime-law/police-respond-to-reported-shooting-at-dayton-chur/nqZS8/?ecmp=whiotv%5Fsocial%5Ftwitter%5F2014%5Fsfp "undefined"). > [](https://twitter.com/KBartleyWHIO/status/704054888838340608) \[[_AP_](http://www.greensboro.com/news/local%5Fnews/ohio-pastor-shot-killed-during-sunday-services/article%5F8fc78cfc-e6ab-5173-b19d-21461453870e.html "undefined")\] **Correction**: The original version of this story misstated the location where the pastor was shot. The pastor was in his office at the St. Peter’s Missionary Baptist Church when he was killed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4240427/ohio-pastor-shot-dead-church/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4240427/ohio-pastor-shot-dead-church/"},"headline":"Ohio Pastor Shot Dead During Sunday Church Services","datePublished":"2016-02-28T21:40:00.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-15T05:10:39.000Z","description":"The shooter is allegedly the pastor's brother","url":"https://time.com/4240427/ohio-pastor-shot-dead-church/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4240427/ohio-pastor-shot-dead-church/","name":"Ohio Pastor Shot Dead During Sunday Church Services"}}]}] ```