Midwest
Arkansas preacher who was shot while sharing gospel forgives gunman: 'We can't hold bitterness and anger'
Reverend Larry Oneal Walker spends his Sundays preaching at a busy intersection in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
The street preacher recently spoke out after a gunman opened fire while he was sharing the gospel on June 2. Walker reflected on the moment that could have taken his life.
Walker told Fox News Digital in an on-camera interview that a man aggressively approached him and attempted to grab his microphone. (See the video at the top of this article.)
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When Walker told the man he could not have it, the man said he had a gun.
The two struggled, and the man shot him.
Street preacher Larry Oneal Walker prays at a busy Arkansas intersection every Sunday. (LaKiesa Walker)
“I fell to the ground, checked my side with a handful of blood. The next thing I did was put my hands on my head and started praying,” Walker said.
Walker said he forgives the man who shot him, citing John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son.”
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“As a Christian, we must forgive one another,” said Walker.
“We can’t hold bitterness and anger and strife in our hearts against one another.”
Rev. Larry Oneal Walker has been preaching for over 50 years; he’s been preaching in the streets for the past 15 years. “I see miracles all the time, all the time,” he told Fox News Digital. (LaKiesa Walker)
Walker said the doctors told him the manner in which the bullet entered the side of his body was “a miracle” as it grazed past his vital organs.
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“I see miracles all the time, all the time. That’s why I said, ‘I cannot die. I will not die. I can’t get sick. I will not get sick because the Lord has given me life,’” he said.
LaKeisa Walker, Walker’s daughter, said it was a horrific moment when she answered the phone and learned that her father had been shot.
Larry Oneal Walker was shot on June 2 while preaching at a busy Arkansas intersection. (LaKiesa Walker)
“We were standing on the scripture that, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper,’ so we believed that that was a weapon formed against him, but it did not prosper… God manifested a healing, a miracle through him that day,” she told Fox News Digital.
She said her father’s story touched not just the Arkansas community, but hers in Texas as well.
“They are just like, ‘That was God.’ It strengthened not only my faith, but the whole community,” she said.
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Walker has been preaching for the past 50 years.
He began street preaching 15 years ago.
“This is why our nation has been so strong, because we believe in the Almighty God,” said Walker.
Walker told Fox News Digital that he forgives the man who shot him on June 2, adding, “We can’t hold bitterness and anger and strife in our hearts against one another.” (LaKeisa Walker)
He said America is healing — and that the loss of faith across the country has led to confusion and division.
Between 2007 and 2021, the percentage of adults who identify as not religiously affiliated has grown from 16% to 29%, according to the Pew Research Center.
“America had been wounded with this evil spirit of hate,” said Walker.
“Well, we’re loving people. America [is] the best, blessed nation on the planet. There is no other nation greater than America.”
Eighty percent of U.S. adults say that religion has lost its influence in society, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in February.
“We need to turn to God.”
LaKeisa Walker said, “We need to turn to God. I think this can be a beginning, a genesis of a movement across the country… Turn to God in such a time as this that our world is heading in right now.”
Walker has not had any contact with the suspect since the incident.
The individual, identified as 20-year-old Latarryes Bush of North Little Rock, is currently being held without bond, pending his initial court appearance in North Little Rock District Court, Fox News Digital learned in a media release shared by the North Little Rock Police Department.
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Detroit, MI
DPD investigating after human remains found in home on Detroit’s west side
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
Milwaukee, WI
Former Judge Hannah Dugan fined $5,000, won’t serve prison time, judge rules
MILWAUKEE — Former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan won’t serve prison time or probation and has been fined $5,000, a judge determined on Wednesday during her sentencing hearing.
It comes after a jury found her guilty of obstruction last year for helping an immigrant evade federal agents.
During the hearing, Dugan’s defense team called two character witnesses to the stand to speak on her behalf, including Rev. Gregory J. O’Meara, who is also a Marquette University Law School faculty member, and Janine Geske, the retired director of the Andrew Center for Restorative Justice and a law professor at Marquette.
“Hannah models what it means to be a Christian,” O’Meara said.
Dugan herself also spoke for the first time since the case against her began.
She told U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman that she tried to “maintain a courtroom with the decorum and safety the public deserves.”
Dugan added her actions on April 18, 2025, when the incident occurred, were “not done with any malicious intent or to advance any personal interest.”
Wrapping up her remarks, Dugan said to the court she has been cast as a scofflaw and a hero, but considers herself neither of those things.
“I am a public servant who’s just trying to do my job,” Dugan said, adding that she has had to retire from public life due to threats against her and her family.
A prosecutor then acknowledged that “she has experienced collateral damage because of her conduct,” but said “judges can’t choose to disregard the law.”
Prosecutors argued that Dugan’s actions amounted to an “abuse of trust” and asked the court’s sentence to reflect that.
Adelman then spoke, saying Dugan made a bad decision and that he doesn’t believe prison is necessary.
“This is a few minutes of conduct for someone who has dedicated her life to public service,” the judge said. “It’s a marked deviation from an otherwise law-abiding life.”
He also noted that Dugan’s actions didn’t stop the ICE agents from arresting the defendant outside the courthouse.
In April of last year, federal agents showed up at the Milwaukee County Courthouse to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who had reentered the country illegally. On that particular day, he was appearing before Dugan’s courtroom for a state battery case.
Dugan confronted the federal agents in a hallway outside the courtroom and directed them to the chief judge’s office. Following that, she helped Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a private jury door. Agents eventually caught up to him outside the courthouse.
Dugan was later arrested and charged for her part in the incident, and she was found guilty of obstruction last December; she was acquitted on her concealment charge.
Her lawyers argued during her trial that President Donald Trump’s administration sought to “crush” Dugan in an effort to ensure judicial compliance with the ICE strategy of targeting immigrants as they showed up for court hearings.
Dugan resigned the Milwaukee County circuit judgeship she had held for nine years in January amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers who labeled her an activist judge. In her resignation letter, she said her prosecution threatened “the independence of our judiciary.”
Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, who has the backing of Trump in his race for governor, urged authorities to “lock her up” in a social media post following her conviction.
Minneapolis, MN
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