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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ex-Virginia youth pastor gets 58 years in triple domestic homicide</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>On Tuesday 59-year-old Christopher R. Gattis pled guilty to first-degree murder </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Gattis had issues with his wife 58-year-old Jeanett L. Gattis’ children</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> He didn’t want 30-year-old Candice L. Kunze or her boyfriend Andrew Buthorn, 36, staying for long in heir home</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Fearing possible disaster, Jeanett Gattis wanted her husband&#8217;s gun hidden</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>On Thanksgiving night 2017, Gattis walked into their kitchen with a loaded pistol </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He began firing while his family played a board game killing all three</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Initially he told investigators, he was threatened, saying “they all came after me”</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Investigators said the victims died of gunshot wounds to the bac</strong><strong>k</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><strong><img src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Christopher-Gattis-1.jpg?resize=620%2C468&;ssl=1" alt="Christopher Gattis 1" />Christopher R. Gattis is sentenced to 58 years in jail for killing his wife, stepdaughter and her boyfriend on Thanksgiving day</strong></h6>
<p>A former Virginia youth pastor was sentenced to 58 years in prison for killing his wife, stepdaughter and the stepdaughter’s boyfriend.<br />
last Thanksgiving, the Lutheran youth pastor Christopher Gattis, fatally shot his wife, her daughter, daughter’s boyfriend in Thanksgiving triple homicide.<br />
<a href="https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/ex-youth-ministry-director-to-serve-years-for-thanksgiving-triple/article_b7457e0d-42d3-564a-a380-54d2a6e12fcd.html">The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported</a> Wednesday that 59-year-old Christopher R. Gattis ultimately pled guilty to first-degree murder.<br />
Investigators learned Gattis had issues with 58-year-old Jeanett L. Gattis’ children. He didn’t want 30-year-old Candice L. Kunze or her boyfriend, 36-year-old Andrew Buthorn, staying for long.<br />
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<div class="mh-excerpt">The shooter was a youth pastor at <a href="https://www.gracelutheranva.com/youth">Grace Lutheran Church</a>, according to <a href="http://www.nbc12.com/story/36916408/police-identify-suspect-3-victims-killed-in-chester-thanksgiving-night" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC 12</a>.<br />
Police described the scene in a 911 call obtained by the outlet.<br />
“I have one detained; be advised he shot three people…I got one male subject on the ground. He’s got two gunshots to the stomach…Sir, we have two females down in the kitchen.”</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-285923" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jeanett-Gattis-left-and-her-daughter-Candice-Kunze.png?resize=620%2C452&;ssl=1" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jeanett-Gattis-left-and-her-daughter-Candice-Kunze.png?w=584&;ssl=1 584w, https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jeanett-Gattis-left-and-her-daughter-Candice-Kunze.png?resize=300%2C218&;ssl=1 300w" alt=" Jeanett Gattis [left], and her daughter Candice Kunze.png" width="665" height="484" data-attachment-id="285923" data-permalink="https://konniemoments.com/2017/11/24/thanksgiving-triple-homicide-in-virginia-pastor-christopher-gattis-charged-with-fatally-shooting-wife-daughter-daughters-boyfriend-at-family-home/jeanett-gattis-left-and-her-daughter-candice-kunze/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jeanett-Gattis-left-and-her-daughter-Candice-Kunze.png?fit=584%2C425&;ssl=1" data-orig-size="584,425" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{";aperture";:";0";,";credit";:";";,";camera";:";";,";caption";:";";,";created_timestamp";:";0";,";copyright";:";";,";focal_length";:";0";,";iso";:";0";,";shutter_speed";:";0";,";title";:";";,";orientation";:";0";}" data-image-title="Jeanett Gattis [left], and her daughter Candice Kunze" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jeanett-Gattis-left-and-her-daughter-Candice-Kunze.png?fit=300%2C218&;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jeanett-Gattis-left-and-her-daughter-Candice-Kunze.png?fit=584%2C425&;ssl=1" /><strong>58-year-old Jeanett Gattis [left], and her daughter Candice Kunze, were both victims of the domestic homicide on Thanksgiving day in 2017</strong></h6>
<p>Jeanett Gattis who worked at Napier Realtors in accounting for 15 years according to a <a href="http://www.nbc12.com/story/36916408/police-identify-suspect-3-victims-killed-in-chester-thanksgiving-night" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC 12 </a>report lived in the home with her pastor husband their daughter and her boyfriend neighbors said</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-285924" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Andrew-Buthorn-1-1.png?resize=620%2C395&;ssl=1" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Andrew-Buthorn-1-1.png?w=747&;ssl=1 747w, https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Andrew-Buthorn-1-1.png?resize=300%2C191&;ssl=1 300w" alt="Andrew Buthorn 1.png" width="673" height="429" data-attachment-id="285924" data-permalink="https://konniemoments.com/2017/11/24/thanksgiving-triple-homicide-in-virginia-pastor-christopher-gattis-charged-with-fatally-shooting-wife-daughter-daughters-boyfriend-at-family-home/andrew-buthorn-1-2/" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Andrew-Buthorn-1-1.png?fit=747%2C476&;ssl=1" data-orig-size="747,476" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{";aperture";:";0";,";credit";:";";,";camera";:";";,";caption";:";";,";created_timestamp";:";0";,";copyright";:";";,";focal_length";:";0";,";iso";:";0";,";shutter_speed";:";0";,";title";:";";,";orientation";:";0";}" data-image-title="Andrew Buthorn 1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Andrew-Buthorn-1-1.png?fit=300%2C191&;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Andrew-Buthorn-1-1.png?fit=620%2C395&;ssl=1" />Candice Kunze’s live-in boyfriend, Andrew Buthorn, was fatally shot as well by Christopher Gattis</strong></h6>
<p>Authorities said the women’s bodies were found inside the home and the man’s body was found in the front yard.</p>
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<p>Following multiple arguments, Gattis’ wife asked his adult nephew to hide a gun, saying she was afraid Gattis would use it.<br />
He walked into their kitchen Thanksgiving night with a loaded pistol while his family played a board game and began firing.<br />
Gattis initially told police he was threatened, saying “they all came after me.”<br />
All three died of gunshot wounds to the back.</p>
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Ex-Virginia youth pastor, Christopher Gattis, is sentenced 58 years in jail for killing his wife, stepdaughter and her boyfriend on Thanksgiving day
