Pastor cox charged with murder
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Youth pastor charged with murder in fight outside Las Vegas bar
A California youth pastor has been charged with murder after a man he allegedly put in a coma during a violent confrontation in a Las Vegas parking lot died.
Robert Lynn Cox was arrested by Manteca, Calif., police on a murder warrant issued by Nevada prosecutors after 55-year-old Link Ellingson died in December after months of being in a coma, the Modesto Bee reported.
Cox, 35, was initially booked in San Joaquin County jail but has since posted bail and is reportedly scheduled to appear in a Nevada courtroom Friday to answer the charges.
The fact that Cox was charged nearly a year after the incident outside the Four Kegs pub in Las Vegas, about a 15-minute drive from the strip, stunned the local community and his family.
On a message posted on the Place of Refuge church website in Manteca, Pastor Mike Dillman asks for parishioners’ support and gives Cox’s side of the story.
“A very large man assaulted Rob and two of our interns,” the message read. “Rob used his weight to push the man back causing him to fall and he hit his head on the concrete.”
The church portrays Ellingson as the aggressor in the June 13 incident, claiming that as Cox and his group left Four Kegs, they were confronted by Ellingson in the
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A California youth pastor who was arrested on an outstanding warrant for murder in Las Vegas claims he is innocent.
“I was blindsided and totally shocked,” Robert Cox told News10 from San Joaquin County Jail, where he was held last week.
The murder charges come from an incident last June in which Cox, a youth minister with The Place of Refuge Church in Manteca, California, was with his wife and around 20 interns on a ministry trip in Las Vegas.
The group was dining at Four Kegs Sports Pub when another man at the restaurant, Link Ellingson, started threatening them out of the blue, Cox says.
He said his actions were out of self-defense.
“When somebody says they are going f—ing kill me and they attack me and choke me and punch me in the face and go after my students and give a student a concussion,” he says.
He said he grabbed the man and they both fell down. Court documents and the police report show that Cox punched Ellingson in the head, leaving him with a severe brain injury. Ellingson died in December.
“No, I did not throw a punch,” Cox says.
Ellingson’s niece, Gina Hardy, shared photos showing his injuries. Cox’s wife, Julie, provided News10 with an image of her husband, showing what she says are choke
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