Manhunt Underway for Gunman Who Shot Idaho Pastor A Day After He Gave Opening Prayer at Ted Cruz Rally

A Christian pastor in northern Idaho was shot and wounded Sunday afternoon, just a day after he gave the opening remarks at a campaign rally for Senator Ted Cruz.

The gunman shot Pastor Tim Remington multiple times as the pastor was leaving the Altar Church parking lot in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Remington is expected to survive, despite being shot in the skull and lung. Police have identified the suspected shooter as 30-year-old Kyle Andrew Odom of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and are currently working on obtaining a warrant for his arrest, according to a statement early Monday morning.

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Odom's Facebook page showed that he is a former Marine and had briefly lived in Houston, Texas. Police said he is armed and dangerous and should not be approached.

Police did not say if there was a motive for the shooting or whether it was possibly related to Remington's appearance at a Cruz's Coeur d'Alene campaign rally just 24 hours prior to the shooting. At the rally, presidential hopeful Cruz joined Remington arm-in-arm to pray together before the pastor delivered the invocation speech.

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In his introduction, Remington hailed Cruz as, "A man that will unite the parties once again in character toward Christ and true freedom and a man that build a nation of character once again."

Remington had been a prominent and well-loved member of the community for nearly twenty years, according to the Spokesman-Review newspaper, and many people who knew him were shaken by the shooting.

"He lives for God and for everybody else. He is the most selfless man I have ever met in my life," John Padula, the outreach pastor at Remington's Altar Church told the Spokesman-Review. "When I was struggling, when I was using drugs still, he just loved the daylights out of me and helped me, as he has done for 1,700 people now who have graduated our program."

Remington apparently knew Odom, according to local television channel KHQ, although it is not clear what the exact nature of their relationship was. In addition to being a pastor at Altar Church, Remington ran a faith-based drug and alcohol treatment rehabilitation facility and counseled prison inmates. Part of the rehabilitation program Remington ran involved allowing addicts to stay at his home with his family and he apparently had been threatened by some of the people he had worked with in the past, Padula told the Spokesman-Review.

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Before starting Altar Church in Idaho, Remington lived in San Bernardino, California in the 1980s where he became involved in "street ministry," according to his biography on the Altar Church's website. This consisted of counseling "the people that are typically ignored; those who have problems with drugs, alcohol, and perversion."

In a statement to VICE News, the Cruz campaign said that their prayers are with Remington and his family. "We pray for his full recovery and are thankful for the efforts of law enforcement to ensure the attacker is swiftly brought to justice," Cruz's campaign said in the statement.

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