Police reports and family add new information in Mica Miller’s death

Sierra Francis’ attorney, Regina Ward, says the family is considering some sort of civil lawsuit, possibly against Solid Rock Church, whose de facto owner is John-Paul Miller.

“He pursued everything that mattered to this young woman,” Ward told NewsNation. “She was brainwashed by this man. He abused her in every way possible.”

A statement was also released on Thursday Angela Brian Clark, who says she was a close friend of Mica Miller. She says her friend’s death “triggered a wave of emotions, speculation, pain, brokenness, sadness… for me. The stories that Mica told me personally are terrible.”

Clark notes that John-Paul Miller denies involvement in his wife’s death, but says, “You don’t have to physically pull a trigger to be responsible for someone’s death.”

A police timeline shows Mica Miller left her home just before noon on April 27, bought a gun, then called 911 three hours later and threatened to take her own life.

The sheriff’s office said John-Paul Miller was not in North Carolina the night before or the day of Mica Miller’s death. Surveillance video captured him in Charleston, South Carolina, at a sporting event.

The man may have heard suicide

In another incident Thursday, a man said he heard screaming and a gunshot in the park when Mica Miller is believed to have died.

Johnnie Jacobs revealed to NewsNation affiliate WBTW that he found the 30-year-old’s fanny pack with her ID inside and heard crying, followed by a gunshot and then silence.

“I heard a scream – a faint scream. I heard it for about two or three minutes and then the crying stopped,” Jacobs said. “If there had been a person crying out there where I could see them, I would have checked on them all day.”

Also this week, a waiter told NewsNation that John-Paul Miller left her a big tip and wrote his phone number on the restaurant bill — which led to the two exchanging flirtatious messages. This happened two months before Mica Miler’s death.

The server, which NewsNation would only identify by her first name, Christiana, says she and Miller exchanged text messages after Mica’s death.

He repeatedly asked Christiana to send pictures of herself, including bikini pictures, and called her “super hot.” The priest never asked for a face-to-face meeting, she said.

Another revelation from police reports: Mica Miller was the suspect in a now-closed theft investigation in which nearly $1,200 in donations intended for Solid Rock Ministries’ mission efforts in Africa were reported stolen.

Mica was suspected of having withdrawn the money from a church account and transferred it to her private account.

Police said the investigation was closed on April 8 after the prosecutor determined there was no probable cause and that the case was a “civil matter between the parties involved.” Miller’s name did not appear in the police report, but police confirmed she was the “perpetrator.”