A Durham, North Carolina, man has been charged with killing a 4-year-old boy and a 28-year-old woman. Peter Lucas Moses, 27, and six others face murder charges in the deaths of Jadon Higganbothan, 4, and Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy, 28.
Moses led a cult-like group, known as The Black Hebrew Israelites, of women and children who called him Lord. Jadon had apparently hit another childs bottom leading Moses to think the boy was gay. Prosecutors allege that Moses took Jadon into the garage and shot him in the head while music and the Lords Prayer, in Hebrew, blared. District Attorney Tracey Cline said In the religious belief of that organization, homosexuality was frowned on.
McKoy tried to escape the cults house but was caught and dragged back inside by some of the other women, according to neighbors. According to an informant, Moses beat McKoy and tried to strangle her with an extension cord while she begged for her life. He finally went and got the gun used to kill Jadon and shot McKoy. McKoy was unable to have children and wrote in her diary that she feared the Lord might kill her.
