DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — The wife of a missionary from northwestern Minnesota has been arrested in connection with his slaying in Africa, according to the family’s Detroit Lakes church.

Beau Shroyer was killed Oct. 25 while working in Angola, Lakes Area Vineyard Church said earlier this week.

On Friday, Lead Pastor Troy Easton wrote in an online statement that Jackie Shroyer had been arrested in her husband’s death.

“Today, our grief and sadness has deepened immeasurably,” Easton’s statement said.

Easton said the Shroyers’ five children are “well cared for” and that Lakes Area Vineyard Church will continue to work along SIM USA and SIM Angola, a Christian missionary organization.

“This is unimaginable, and yet it is very real. As a community we must cry out to the Lord for his grace, mercy and comforting presence for the Shroyer children and family,” Easton said in his statement. “We must honor God and love each other by how we communicate about this, and we must continue to stand together, asking God to do in and through all of this what only He can.”

Beau Shroyer joined the Detroit Lakes Police Department in 2013 before becoming a real estate agent in the area. In 2021, he and his family moved to Africa to become missionaries.

The area of southern Africa where the family moved is one that Beau Shroyer previously described as a “remote bush village” with no electricity, sewer or water systems.

Other details about the arrest of Jackie Shroyer weren’t immediately available, and the Lakes Area Vineyard Church said it wouldn’t have anything to add beyond its statement.

Related Articles

Amber Alert canceled after pregnant woman and four children found safe

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over state trooper’s shooting of Ricky Cobb

Washington County deputy accused of drunk-driving crash was still in uniform after overnight shift, charges say

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We will forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

Man shot in stomach outside Rice Street bar, St. Paul police say