Lucy Pat Curl, the 85-year-old spouse of First Baptist Church Orlando’s longtime pastoral care minister Invoice Curl, who was hospitalized after she was brutally overwhelmed throughout a house invasion final Friday, has died.
A press release from the Orlando Police Division mentioned the beloved pastor’s spouse succumbed to her accidents at roughly 5:15 a.m. Wednesday on the Orlando Regional Medical Heart.
Ronald D. Davis, the 55-year-old ex-convict suspected of attacking Lucy Pat Curl whereas her husband was at work, is now going through a further cost of first-degree homicide within the fee of a house invasion, police mentioned.
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Davis, who was solely launched from jail in June 2024 after serving a 15-year concurrent sentence for housebreaking of a dwelling with assault and battery, in addition to theft, was beforehand going through fees of residence invasion theft with a weapon, aggravated battery on an individual over 65, with nice bodily hurt, and aggravated battery with a weapon.
A press release from Lucy Pat Curl’s household revealed on Fb additionally confirmed her passing.
“On Tuesday, Lucy Pat was taken off life assist. She went on to Heaven early this morning. We rejoice that she is not in ache,” the household mentioned. “The circumstances of her passing are stunning and abrupt, and never what we’d have anticipated or chosen. However as our Lord has forgiven us, we’re requested to forgive one another.”
The household additionally urged well-wishers to decide on to forgive Davis as her husband has pledged to do.
“At one level, Invoice (her husband) took her image earlier than the outcomes of the assault had been cleaned up. When requested what he would do with an image like that, his response was, ‘I’m going to point out it to the person who did this to her. Then I’m going to forgive him. I refuse to let his actions dictate who I’m.’ So we’d ask so that you can do the identical,” the household mentioned.
In recounting the assault on Lucy Pat Curl to his congregation on Sunday, First Baptist Orlando’s Senior Pastor David Uth mentioned Pastor Curl was counseling at their Heart for Being pregnant when his spouse was attacked at their residence.
He mentioned Lucy Pat advised police that she heard a knock at her door, and when she went to the door, she noticed the suspect, who mentioned he was a group service officer. When she requested for his identification to confirm his declare, Davis allegedly pretended he was in search of an ID in his pockets earlier than forcing his means into the house and attacking her.
“He knocked her down, got here into the home [and] hit her a number of occasions. She’s 85 years outdated however in nice well being. She survived most cancers thrice,” Uth mentioned.
In the course of the assault, Uth mentioned Lucy Pat hit the best facet of her head on a espresso desk, which triggered important injury to her mind.
“They (medical doctors) did some research and noticed there was a mind bleed, however they have been hopeful that perhaps it might be operated on to alleviate the stress and to cope with it. However then, after they ran the second scan, it was past assist, and the neurosurgeon mentioned there’s actually nothing we are able to do. And so, all the things that they’ve heard is that she’s not going to make it,” Uth advised his congregants.
The Curl household has requested the general public for privateness and mentioned her memorial service might be held at First Baptist Church of Orlando on Feb. 16.
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