By The Associated Press
RIVERSIDE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama pastor indicted in connection to a fire at his church has died the night before a hearing in the case.
News outlets report an attorney for 50-year-old Ricky Van Mitchell says the Riverside pastor had a heart attack Monday night. Tommy Spina says his client died at a hospital in Birmingham.
Mitchell and his wife, 46-year-old Angela Mitchell, were charged with arson, criminal conspiracy and insurance fraud in the Jan. 12 fire. Forty-five-year-old Heather Whitten was also charged with arson and criminal conspiracy.
The pastor had been scheduled for a bond revocation hearing Tuesday morning.