Beloved Miami Pastor Fatally Stabbed in Unprovoked Attack at Church: Police

James Dawkins was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the attack

A Miami pastor was stabbed to death in his church, and a man who had been living on the property has been charged with his murder.

Antwane Lenoir, 41, was found by police suffering from multiple stab wounds to the neck at Westview Baptist Church on Saturday, April 6, the Miami-Dade Police Department says in an arrest report obtained by PEOPLE.

The day of the stabbing, police say that Lenoir, a pastor, had requested for a locksmith to change the church’s locks. That afternoon, the arrest report alleges, Lenoir got into a verbal altercation with James Dawkins.

Police allege that Dawkins repeatedly stabbed Lenoir “without any provocation” and fled the scene on foot.

Police later located and arrested Dawkins, who was charged with first-degree murder, police say. It is not immediately clear if he has entered a plea.

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Yovonka Bryant, the victim’s cousin, told WSVN that Lenoir had been letting Dawkins live in the church prior to the incident.

“He was a very nice man, and he would give you the shirt off his back,” Bryant said of her cousin. “He was so generous and so kind to a lot of people.”

Lenoir’s wife, Bree, told CBS that she and her husband had four children.

"He was a very good example of a selfless individual, a joy-filled person,” she told the outlet. “He always smiled, even if things were looking kind of grim or dreary, you wouldn't know it by his countenance.”

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