Vigil held for Burney man who died after being set on fire

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  Vigil organizer Kyle Cantrell knew Wicks well, as did so many in the community.

  “If you ask anyone in this town, one of their favorite people, they're going to tell you, Dave down there at the gas station, down at the Shell,” Cantrell said. “(He would) give you the shirt off his back, standup guy, very Christian like, a man of his faith, (he was) just the nicest guy you'd ever meet and so many people are heartbroken. (There’s) a lot of confusion, you know, why him?"

  
  

  http://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/friends-and-family-remember-david-wicks-with-candlelight-vigil/

  
  

  The entire event took no more than 15 seconds,

  
  

  https://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/well-liked-california-store-clerk-doused-with-flammable-liquid-and-set-on-fire/comments/#disqus
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  Balaamsass2

  An arrest today. http://www.krcrtv.com/news/breaking-news/arrest-in-murder-of-burney-man-set-on-fire/279931238?utm_medium=social
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  Bill Covert

  Just in time services this Saturday.
  
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  “He was a good Christian man,” McNealy said. “He joked with everyone and was just a good human being.”....

  
  

  Wicks and his wife, Sonja Wicks, were Jehovah’s Witnesses in Johnson Park, according to an obituary written by his friends.

  He met his wife in 2001 while playing in a band at a club in Burney. They married in 2002 and were baptized as Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2006. He preached to his neighbors and met with strangers as part of ministry work that was a large part of his life.

  The Jehovah’s Witness congregation meets off Highway 299 in Johnson Park, down the street from where Wicks worked.

  He is survived his mother, Karen Deriso, sons Justin and David Wicks, daughter Megan Wicks, stepdaughter, Yvonne Hand, and grandchildren.

  
  

  http://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2017/01/18/friends-honor-david-wicks-man-killed-december/96706620/

  
  

  http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-murder-arrest-gas-station-clerk-burned-alive-burney-20170120-story.html

  
  
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  http://www.onenewspage.us/video/20170122/6607466/Wicks-followup.htm
  

  
  

  More than 400 people packed the Burney High School gymnasium for the service, which touched on Wicks’ life, his large family and reinforced his faith and the faith of most in attendance.

  Wicks, a lifelong musician, was baptized as a Jehovah’s Witness in 2006, which came after meeting his wife, Sonja, who introduced him to the church. Wicks himself had long been searching for meaning in life through religion, Minner said.

  “He had a fire in his heart to learn about the Bible,” Minner said of Wicks.

  Benton also spoke of Wicks’ generosity. He recounted the story of a woman and her child who came to the Burney area without food or money. Wicks took extra food from the Shell station hot case and gave it to them at the end of each day.

  That same woman would later tell Benton of Wicks, “That man kept us alive,” Benton said.

  “He was very happy, always had a smile or a joke and a little song,” he said.

  
  

  http://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2017/01/21/family-friends-remember-david-wicks-memorial/96884322/
  
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  Forensic tests conducted by the California Department of Justice revealed on Dec. 30 that Veneagas' DNA was found on the inside wrist cuffs of the rain suit, as well as on the bicycle and a ski mask that deputies recovered, according to the sheriff's report.

  According to the report, a detective interviewed Venegas on Dec. 23. He said he heard about the homicide through Facebook but refused to provide a DNA sample and eventually left the interview.

  http://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2017/01/30/man-pleads-not-guilty-murder-burney-burning-death/97238744/

  Venegas, 39, of Burney, was arrested by the Shasta County Sheriff's Office and charged with first-degree, premeditated murder with torture of Wicks.

  http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/shasta/murder-suspect-pleads-not-guilty/301379515

  his preliminary hearing was set for March 28.

  Venegas, who was arrested Jan. 19 at his Telecaster Lane home in west Redding, remains in Shasta County Jail in lieu of $5 million bail.

  http://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2017/02/21/hearing-set-man-charged-burney-fire-death/98204254/
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  Doubtfully Yours

  If he exists, God is a royal prick. It's documented in the Bible how he even had pleasure in watching his Son dying so horribly, along with many other verses which detail how servants from the past died in terrible ways.

  But, hey, they died with 'the hope'!

  I feel such deep hatred for this God.

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