Church Bells at Midnight: A Church Its Neighborhood and a Serial Killer

For fifty-one days in 2017 a neighborhood in Tampa Florida--Seminole Heights--was terrorized by a serial killer. Benjamin was shot while waiting for a bus Monica while walking to meet a friend Anthony while walking home from packing hurricane relief supplies and Reginald on his way to volunteer at his church to feed the homeless. Police were baffled by his ability to escape businesses struggled to stay open residents stopped walking the streets at night and Seminole Heights United Methodist Church was called upon to serve a neighborhood in fear. Their campus housed efforts to support heroic police officers; their members and friends supported mourning family members; and late late into the night on day fifty-one their church bells pierced the darkness to announce when it was once again safe to come outside. For anyone who thinks people dont need churches in their neighborhoods anymore the story of Seminole Heights invites you to think again.