The wife of an American missionary killed last October in a “violent, criminal attack” in Africa, is “formally sued as co-author in the murder,” his church announced.
Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was stabbed to death on 25 October in a vehicle during a mission trip to Angola with his wife and their five children.
His wife, Jackie Shroyer, has now formally charged, the parish of the family, Lakes Area Vineyard Church, announced in an update Monday.
“I am very happy to share with you that we have been notified that Jackie was formally charged as a co-author in the murder of her husband,” wrote Pastor Troy M. Easton.
The widow would remain in custody until its judicial date, which “will probably take place within the next 6 months,” the pastor told parishioners.
Beau, a former police officer of Detroit Lakes, and his family moved to Angola in 2021 to be missionaries for the SIM organization.
The pastor said that the five children of the couple “will continue to be cared for by a close family with the support of both SIM and Lakes Area Vineyard Church.”
Shroyer was previously described as the ‘brain’ behind the murder of her husband through the law enforcement of Angolan when she was arrested in November last year.
Her alleged complicit-Bernardino Isaac Elias, 24, and the 23-year-old Isalino Muselenga Kayoo, who has arrested the nickname “Vin Diesel” shortly thereafter.
A third man-the 22-year-old Gelson Guerreiro Ramos-Werd reported as “on the run” and wanted to have the murder, said Angolan Law Enforcement at the time. It is not known whether he has been put into custody.
Local law enforcement claimed that Shroyer had an affair with Elias, who was a guard at their house, and that she did not want to return to the States now that the mission of her husband was over.
There were “strong suspicions of a romantic relationship between the person who, the crime and her accomplice, the guard in the home of the couple,” Manuel Halaiwa, a chief inspector at the Criminal Investigation Service, told, the Angola Press Agency at the time.
He claimed that the suspects rented a car on the day of the murder and pretended to have broken down before Shroyer lured her husband to a place in the forest.
It is said that Elias Kayoo asked to execute the murder in exchange for $ 50,000.
The Shroyer family spoke earlier The Detroit Lakes Tribune About their move to Angola.
They told the outlet that they moved to a “remotely bush village” without electricity.
Jackie said that the family would learn the inhabitants of the region about Christianity and God’s love.
