Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism
From Times Wire Reports
A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted in his Waco church after grabbing a microphone while standing in water, a church employee said.
The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was in a baptismal at University Baptist Church when he was electrocuted, said Jamie Dudley, a church business administrator.
Doctors in the congregation performed chest compressions, she said. Lake was taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, where nursing supervisor Pat Mahl said he was pronounced dead.
The woman Lake was baptizing was not injured, Dudley said.
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