A Louisiana local minister was arrested Tuesday, June 23, after authorities said he ran across a four-lane highway to assault a neighbor who allegedly threatened to rape and kill his family. East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s deputies booked Mark Anthony ‘Tony’ Spell, the pastor of Life Tabernacle Church, on a felony charge of second-degree battery following the physical altercation outside Baton Rouge.
The incident occurred along Hooper Road in Central, where surveillance footage captured Spell crossing the roadway to confront the 20-year-old victim. Records show the Louisiana victim required hospital treatment for injuries sustained during the ensuing fight.
What emerged next was a bitter dispute that sparked the violence. Spell said during a Wednesday press conference that he was working on a church bus when the young man began shouting explicit death and r*pe threats targeting his wife and grandchildren…