Christian Web News - A witness has told police that 18 year old Jeriah Woody shot and killed Stephen Ocean and Tite Sufra after they tried to witness to him.

On Wednesday, Woody turned himself in to Boynton Beach police, and is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Saturday night deaths of Stephen Ocean, 23, and Tite Sufra, 24, near the Boynton Beach city library.

Boynton Beach spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said Wednesday he was still being questioned and she would not immediately provide information about a motive.

A woman who identified herself as Ocean's sister said the two men, best friends, were ministers who were ordained last year and had turned their lives around after run-ins with law enforcement. She did not want to identify the church with which they were aligned.

"They go around and minister to boys and say where they came from," the sister said. "They did that all day and all night."

Jail records show no adult arrests for Sufra. In 2003, Ocean was arrested on robbery charges and in 2004 for violating probation on previous battery and petit theft convictions. He was also arrested in 2006 for carrying a concealed firearm and resisting an officer.

Jail records show no adult arrests for Woody.

According to a Boynton Beach police report, a person who was with the two slain men told police that, about 8 p.m Saturday, the three were walking through the neighborhood, preaching, and encountered Woody under a tree.

They had been preaching to him for about 15 minutes when he received a call on his cellphone. The three heard him tell the person on the phone that he was "right down the street." He then told the three preachers he had to go. As the three began walking east, they noticed Woody running toward them. The friend said he saw Sufra walk toward Woody; he then saw a flash and saw Sufra fall. Ocean began running and was dropped by a shot to the buttocks, the witness said. He said Woody then walked up to Ocean and shot him in the head execution-style. The third man was able to flee and call police, the report said.

Officers found the two lying in the 100 block of Southwest Second Avenue.

On Tuesday, a source alerted detectives to a man with the street name of "plug" who matched the description of the shooter.

The man who'd been preaching with the two other men picked Woody out of a lineup, the report said.

Be in prayer for the families of Stephen Ocean and Tite Sufra. Although they will be missed, they have gone on to receive a great reward (Rev. 2:10) and heard those words we all wait to hear someday: "Well done good and faithfull servant!" (Matt. 25:23)

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