'I Will Praise the Lord ... I Will Cry Out to God': Wife of Aurora Shooting Victim Pens Heartbreaking Tribute Wrapped in Faith

Will Maule : Feb 18, 2019
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"Things that mattered yesterday do not matter today. I will praise the Lord for giving me this mountain of a man. I will praise the Lord for the children we have together. And I will cry out to God during this immense time of sadness and need. Please remember us in the coming days, months, and years. We are scared and are trying to catch our breath and just putting one foot in front of the other." -Terra Pinkard

(Aurora, IL)—[Faithwire.com] The wife of a man killed in a mass shooting that claimed the lives of five people over the weekend has spoken out about her late husband and the blessing he was to their family. (Photo: the Pinkard family- Facebook/via Faithwire)

Josh Pinkard, 37, was the plant manager at Illinois manufacturing firm, Henry Pratt, and a father to three children. He, along with four other coworkers, was shot dead Friday afternoon by a disgruntled employee.

Gary Martin, who had been with the company for 15 years, was in a meeting regarding his termination when he pulled out his firearm and began shooting. Pinkard's wife, Terra, said that her husband sent her a final text just before succumbing to his gunshot wounds.

"I received a text at 1:24 from my precious husband that said 'I love you, I've been shot at work,'" she wrote on Facebook Sunday. "It took me several times reading it for it to hit me that it was for real"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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