Prayers Pour in after Wife and Infant Son of Rising Baseball Star Shot Dead; 'Your Voice Can Calm Every Storm'

Will Maule : Aug 29, 2019
Faithwire.com

"...Whatever you are going through, put your hand in the hand of the God Who can see over your mountains and past your storms because sometimes, on the other side of the storm, the beauty in His plan is even more evident than before..." -excerpt from a devotion written by Emily Bivens for Baseball Chapel

[Faithwire.com] Prayers and messages of condolence have been streaming in for a minor league baseball player who lost his wife and young son in a brutal shooting [Tuesday]. (Image: via Facebook-Emily Bivens)

Emily and Cullen Bivens, the wife and son of Tampa Bay Rays pitching prospect Blake Bivens, were shot dead at their Pittsylvania, Virginia home Tuesday. The prime suspect is Emily's brother, Matthew Bernard, who was found running around Keeling, Virginia, naked just a few hours after the killings, in which he also killed his own mother.

In bizarre footage of his arrest, which was reported by 8 News in Richmond, VA, Bernard could be seen chasing an armed police officer around a church parking lot, before trying to strangle the church's caretaker. Eventually, he was apprehended by a police K9 unit...

Emily and Blake married in 2016, before having Cullen in 2018. On her Instagram, Emily described herself as, a "follower of Jesus" and someone who was "Amazed by His grace." On Facebook, she battled fiercely for pro-life causes... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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