Floyd Palmer was charged in 2001 Baltimore shooting
ATLANTA -- The more we learn about the suspect charged in Wednesday's shooting at World Changers Church, the harder the story is to believe. Floyd Palmer, 51, was charged with another shooting eleven years ago outside another place of worship in Baltimore, MD.
The shooting happened outside a mosque in June 2001. According to a police report Palmer walked up behind 26 year old Reuben Ash and fired one shot, striking him in the back.
Ash is now Reuben Mohamad and he told 11 Alive News what happened. "He came up behind me and I heard a gunshot and I felt the bullet go in my back," he said by telephone from Baltimore.
Mohamad said he and Palmer were doing a security job at the mosque where they both worshipped. He said after he was shot he fell to the ground and rolled over. "When I turned around I had no idea that it was Floyd (who shot him)," he said. "It really shocked me that he was the one who shot me."
Mohamad said what happened next was a stroke of luck. "He put the gun to my head and the gun jammed," he said. "He un-cocked it (the gun) and put it back to my head and it jammed again."
According to the police report Palmer ran from the parking lot, leaving Mohamad on the ground. He was paralyzed from the waist down.
Palmer was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 2004 after pleading not criminally responsible to the mosque shooting. He spent two years there and was released by a judge in 2006.
In a psychiatric report Palmer told doctors he shot Mohamad because he thought Mohamad was hired by NFL star and Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis to get rid of him.
Palmer said the mosque shooting occurred because one of his cousins was killed in Atlanta shortly after the 2000 Super Bowl. Lewis was charged in the stabbing deaths of Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker outside a Buckhead nightclub. Lewis was exonerated of murder charges and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor obstruction charges.
Reuben Mohamad said the Ray Lewis story doesn't make sense. "It was just ridiculous," he said. "I don't know Ray Lewis, didn't never have anything to do with Ray Lewis."
Now Palmer is charged with murder in connection with Wednesday's church shooting in Atlanta. Police say he walked into a prayer service and shot Greg McDonald several times, killing him.
Mohamad said he wasn't surprised when he heard Palmer was arrested. "It really wasn't shocking because I always knew that Floyd was very dangerous," he said.
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