Calvary is the biggest megachurch in Albuquerque (my sister and my cousin are both members), yet someone saw fit
to murder the security guard for doing his job:
Prosecutors allege that Marc Ward, 36, used his father’s Ford F150 to hit 61-year-old Daniel Bourne as he approached the truck in the church parking lot in Northeast Albuquerque.
Ward is charged with first-degree murder in Bourne’s killing. The 2nd Judicial District Court trial is expected to continue through March 6 before Judge David Murphy.
Skip Heitzig, Calvary’s senior pastor, and about two dozen other church members, filled the gallery of the courtroom Tuesday when attorneys made opening statements.
Ward’s attorney told jurors that prosecutors lack security video or eyewitness testimony to prove that Ward intentionally killed the security guard.
Calvary Church, one of New Mexico’s largest churches, has a 25-acre, seven-building campus on Osuna NE, just west of Jefferson, Calvary’s director of security, Vincent Harrison, testified Tuesday. The church has a membership of 10,000 to 12,000, he estimated.
Bourne was wrapping up his security shift at about 9:15 p.m. on Sept. 23, 2022, when he noticed a blue pickup at the north end of the church parking lot.
“This case is about Daniel Bourne’s last moments,” Assistant District Attorney Savannah Brandenburg-Koch said in opening statements. “Marc Ward violently struck Dan once, probably twice, murdering him with his father’s F150 in the parking lot of Calvary Church.”
Ward then dragged Bourne’s body to an arroyo at the north end of the church property, “disposing of it like it was nothing,” she told jurors.
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