R. Wendell Sheffield and John Lentine have been contacted by multiple news sources including Good Morning America and Dateline NBC for comment on Rev. Shahan’s supposed attempt to flee the United States. Both attorneys vehemently deny that Rev. Shahan was attempting to flee the United States. Shahan had announced months ago that he intended to travel on a mission trip to Europe and Asia to spread his religious beliefs and serve the communities at large. He had distributed literature locally to this effect asking for donations and prayers. The Homewood police waited until the day before his departure to ask that a warrant be issued in order to sensationalize this story far more than would ever be necessary.

For more on this see:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/baptist-preacher-arrested-wifes-murder/story?id=21425668

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/alabama-pastor-collared-wife-murder-boarding-flight-germany-article-1.1564920

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533270/Alabama-pastor-suspected-stabbing-wife-death-July-arrested-tried-board-flight-Germany.html

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/01/homewood_pastor_whose_wife_was.html#incart_2box

http://www.abc3340.com/story/24349058/news-conference-set-to-discuss-shahan-arrest