Funeral Wednesday For Mom Killed At Church

DENVER (AP) -- A funeral service is planned for a woman killed as she and other members of a church came to the aid of a man who had been in a traffic accident.

Funeral services for 67-year-old Josephine Straham Echols will be Wednesday morning at The Potter's House of Denver, about two miles north of the Aurora church where she died.

Police say 29-year-old Kiarron Parker of Denver sped into the parking lot and crashed into a car, then began firing a gun when Echols and other church members came out to help. Echols nephew, Antonio Milow, an off-duty Denver police officer who was attending a church service, shot and killed Parker.

Echols, a nurse originally from Flint, Mich., is survived by two adult children, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

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