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z ee ee eee ee > ea eee oe... ee a igh: Se alpgen oo anepiniabe sd “ey Mount Cippnig mn Space Below) ; Ipate Congregation asks itself: Why did one of us kill? By MARC FISHER Herald Sicf Writer There's a revival going on this week at Riverside Baptist Church in Kendall, a fiery preacher from Atlanta in town to spread the gospel, and in the packed pews, a congregation that cannot under: sland whet happened to one of Its own. . Bill Matix, the concerned family -man who was honored in « Christlan magazine and the mur- dering thug who shot severa) FBI agents on a Kendall street Friday, belonged to Riverside Baptist from August 1984 until last spring. a@ubeay, a pastor and his flock took time out from thelr revival to come fo terms with a man they thought they knew. “We took him at face value,” asid Dr. Emit Ray, a minister with a shock of white halr and serene blue eyes. “We thought William Matix was a man who nesded Selp. We didnt know then how much he needed help.” Ray opened his sermon with a short but emotional discussion of the man who had come to the church reguiarly, a man who had joined the singles Sunday School and dated several members of the Spear etnnoies Please turn to CHURCH /7A | : | THE MIAMY BERALD (dicate page. marie of ewspepe: city and elsie } Miami, Florida Page 1A € dition. April 14, 1986 Character, } @ “Ciotstcation S.0tirg Office MIAMI penne L