Ghanaian pastor who murdered wife in US sentenced to life imprisonment

A Ghanaian pastor who shot and killed his wife in Orlando, Florida – USA, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

According to a report by Kofi Adomah Nwanwani of Kofi TV, Pastor Sylvester Ofori, who was the head pastor of Floodgates of Heaven in Orlando, was sentenced by a US court on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Kofi Adomah indicated that the US court found him guilty of first-degree murder.

The ruling of the court comes after the pastor turned down a plea deal from the prosecution in April 2023.

On September 8, 2020, Sylvester Ofori shot his wife, Barbara Tommey, seven times for leaving him.

Ofori and Barbara were both staying in the US as husband and wife before Barbara left him due to his abusive behaviour.

According to sources, the man, aside his irresponsible acts, had been beating his wife for many years.

The family of Barbara persuaded her to leave him, which she did.

The husband, however, tracked her to her workplace, where he shot her seven times after a short confrontation.

The couple, who were in the middle of a divorce and were separated at the time of the incident, had been married for about five years.

Following the fatal shooting, Barbara’s family released a video of her husband threatening to kill the 27-year-old a few days before the murder.

The late Barbara Tommey, in the company of her elder brother, Perry, and some family members, had visited her estranged husband’s home to pick up some documents when she was attacked by the husband in the presence of her family members.

A heated exchange between her brother and her husband resulted in Ofori issuing a threat to murder his wife.

“If I don’t kill your sister then I am fake,” the pastor blurted out.

Barbara was buried on Saturday, September 26, 2020, in Orlando following a burial and funeral service at the Kingdom Church in Orlando, Florida.

Watch a video of the report below:

BAI/ ADG

Watch the latest episode of Everyday People on GhanaWeb TV below:

Ghana’s leading digital news platform, GhanaWeb, in conjunction with the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, is embarking on an aggressive campaign which is geared towards ensuring that parliament passes comprehensive legislation to guide organ harvesting, organ donation, and organ transplantation in the country.