Pastor Who Led 'Double Life' Indicted in Death of Fiancée Initially Ruled a Suicide
A grand jury in Bibb County Georgia indicted a Houston county pastor on Tuesday for the June murder of his fiancée Kendra Jackson, 46, which was initially ruled a suicide by investigators.
Pastor William C. Pounds III, 47, a bi-vocational minister, who leads Perry's Kings Chapel Memorial CME Church along with being a senior master sergeant assigned to the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base, was charged with malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault in Jackson's June death at his townhouse, according to The Telegraph.
Pounds was first arrested on Aug. 21 after authorities concluded that his fiancée's death was suspicious, but he was released on Oct. 22 on $500,000 bond.
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During the bond hearing attended by family and church members, according to an earlier report in The Telegraph, prosecutor Jonathan Adams asked character witnesses called to testify by Pounds' lawyers, if they knew he had been engaged to two women at the same time. The character witnesses were also asked if they knew Pounds had been convicted for forgery and obstruction. They answered in the negative.
That report noted that Pounds told a number of inconsistent versions of what happened on the night his fiancée died.
Adams said Pounds first told deputies that he and Jackson had argued about separating before she placed a .40-caliber handgun belonging to Pounds to her head.
Pounds said he tried to take the gun away from Jackson but was too late. Police discovered Jackson lying on her back in a bedroom with a gunshot wound to her head.
Adams said Pounds also noted that he only heard one gunshot, but holes were found in the wall and a mattress. A crime lab technician also signs that someone tried to remove a bullet from the wall.
Pounds also noted that he tried to perform CPR on Jackson, but emergency responders said someone trained in CPR wouldn't have tried to resuscitate Jackson based on her injuries. Jackson said Adams appeared to have been dead "quite some time," Adams said. Pounds has extensive training in CPR and teaches the skill to churches in the U.S. and overseas.
