Gospel sharing Christian gunned down in an Alabama ghetto by 17 year old

The slain husband of a former Miss America contestant was tragically gunned down in front of his wife and two-year-old son in a rough Alabama neighborhood while educating impoverished strangers about the powers of God, his friends and family say - just days after the couple celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary.

Thomas Hand Jr., 37, who considered himself a born-again Christian, was sharing information about Christianity in the Montgomery area on Saturday with his wife and toddler when a man - mumbling - walked up to him and shot him, his friends told DailyMail.com.

His wife, former Miss Mississippi Christine Kozlowski Hand, 33, confirmed the account in a brief interview with Dailymail.com on Wednesday, saying: 'What you said is true. It was a complete random act of violence.'
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