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Columbus Man Charged With Killing Local Pastor

Columbus Division of Police

A Columbus man hospitalized with injuries sustained in a garage fire has been charged with killing a pastor.  Police say Ricky Skinner beat and killed 81-year-old Joseph McDowell last month in the victim's Southard Drive home.  Skinner was later injured in the blaze inside McDowell's garage.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.