Popular Ghanaian born and the United States-based Pastor Sylvester Ofori killed his wife Barbara Tommey by shooting on Friday.
Sylvester Ofori was subdued and quiet while facing a judge on Friday afternoon as he was accused of killing his wife Barbara Tommey as went to work as a federal credit union on Thursday morning.
The killing was caught on video.
The judge said, “There is video surveillance which shows Mr Ofori not only shoot his wife but standing over her and put additional rounds.”
Ofori is a pastor of Floodgates of Heaven in Orlando, United States.
On his social media accounts, Ofori calls himself a prophet and he has a huge social media following.
After the shooting, the police went to his apartment at Indigo West apartment homes where Ofori and Tommey at one point lived together. The police brought a SWAT Team and found him in his home.
The police said they believed they were going to find him there and they also believed there was not going to be a risk to the public.
The police not established what led to the attack court records reveal the two were getting through a divorce
In 2016 Ofori was arrested for resisting arrest from an officer who had responded to an argument between the two. He at the time was recorded threatening to kill his wife.
A man is seen I the video restraining Ofori from beating his wife and is heard questioning him, “Why did you attack her?” Ofori is also heard accusing him of being a witch.
The man who protected Tommey is heard calling the cops after locking him up. The woman was resisting the idea of having her husband arrested but her helpers kept insisting that she had to leave the house for safety as her husband was threatening to kill her.
