On May 6, information pertaining to the cause of death of Mica Miller, wife of Solid Rock at Market Common’s pastor, John-Paul Miller, was released by the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s office.
According to Dr. Richard Johnson, 30-year-old Mica died by suicide last Saturday, April 27.
The conclusion is “based on the nature of the wound, that it is consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. And it was not in the back of the head, as it has been speculated,” Johnson said.
Johnson informed local news outlets that he wasn’t the medical examiner on call at the time Mica was discovered but assisted the on call medical examiner at the scene of her death.
Following the news from the examiner’s office, Robeson County Sheriff’s office posted a statement on Facebook informing the public that they are “aware that information pertaining to death of Mica Miller has been released by the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office.”
“Sheriff Burnis Wilkins has scheduled a meeting with the family of Mica and will be releasing more detailed information to substantiate the medical examiner findings tomorrow evening,” officials said. They added that “Sheriff Wilkins is also asking for everyone to please await the full timeline of events before making assumptions and coming to conclusions.”
The pastor shocked his congregation on Sunday, April 28, when he abruptly informed them that his wife took her own life at the end of the worship service.
“We’re not going to do altar call today,” John-Paul told the congregation Sunday. “Instead, I’m going to have you stand up and I’m going to make an announcement. And after the announcement I’m going to ask that you leave church quietly and don’t talk about the announcement here in the building.”
