Ayers Fatally Shot; Video Shows Authorities Fired at His Car

ATLANTA - A 28-year-old Franklin County pastor killed by drug task force agents this week was a father-to-be who settled in a small town where he felt called to the ministry, a relative said Thursday.

Jonathan Paul Ayers, pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, was not a target of the investigation that ended in gunfire at a Toccoa gas station Tuesday, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said.

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