Police Have Identified "Person of Interest" in Associate Pastor Slaying

Atlanta Police released a statement late Thursday afternoon stating that authorities have identified the "person of interest" in the murder of accountant and Providence Missionary Baptist Church associate pastor Derek Moses, 56, and they are asking for community help in identifying the man.

According to the statement, sent by e-mail at 4:38 p.m. Thursday by Sgt. Curtis Davenport, police have not made any arrest in the shooting. Davenport said the investigation is continuing and that police had no further comment on the case. 

The surveillance images were taken at a store on Sylvan Road according to police.

Moses was found dead shortly before 10 a.m. Mon., March 28, inside an office at a home at 2009 Cascade Rd. where he worked as an accountant with multiple gunshot wounds to his body.

Atlanta Police Detective Summer Benton said that the victim’s vehicle—a navy blue 2002 BMW 530i with a golf tag—was taken immediately after he was shot in the face at 1 p.m. on Saturday March 26. 

Hundreds of mourners from the Cascade community and across Atlanta came together this past Saturday to celebrate the life for Moses, who received a bachelor’s degree from Fisk University in 1973 —just two years after graduating from Douglass High School Class in 1971. He went from Fisk to the prestigious Columbia University in New York, N.Y., where he received his MBA at the age of 21.

A host of friends, clergy, neighbors, community leaders and classmates at the funeral remembered as a father, a pastor, and a financial supporter of his community and shared memories of his legacy.