John-Paul Miller and estranged wife Mica's family reach settlement after her mysterious 'suicide' as her family issues shock plea to parishioners

Pastor John-Paul Miller and nan family of his late, estranged woman Mica reached a colony Monday, successful a shocking twist aft her termination captured nationalist attention.

Mica's family had antecedently called for a much robust investigation into John-Paul and alleged he abused her but now, some parties person reached a truce and are asking protesters to time off nan pastor's South Carolina Church. 

'This is over,' John-Paul's lawyer Russell Long said Monday. 'This world statement is Mica's justice. The adjacent measurement is nan legislative goal. We only inquire that you retrieve Mica arsenic nan wonderful, beautiful personification that she was.'

Both parties person agreed to extremity litigation and not record immoderate lawsuits against 1 different successful nan future. 

Mica, 30, was recovered pinch a gunshot coiled successful a North Carolina state parkland connected April 27, 2024 with her decease deemed a termination by nan Robeson County Sheriff's Department.

Regina Ward, a section lawyer who represented Mica's family and hung a elephantine 'JUSTICE FOR MICA' banner successful beforehand of her offices, understood nan disorder immoderate of her supporters mightiness beryllium feeling. 

'I cognize that immoderate of you are going to beryllium disappointed. Whenever you're progressive successful litigation of this magnitude and this galore things to cover, it could return years to spell done a tribunal system,' Ward told WBTW. 

Ward said that now, nan family and John-Paul will attraction connected a rule banning coercive power abuse.

'We are fresh to spell to nan adjacent chapter,' she said. 'The adjacent section is to spell and person our wide assembly to return a look astatine nan coercive power rule bill. We request that connected nan schedule ASAP.'

She added that she doesn't 'want to talk astir Mr. Miller' anymore and is going to commencement fundraising connected behalf of specified a bill, which past stalled successful nan South Carolina legislature successful 2021.

Long, similarly, asked protesters to now time off churchgoers astatine Market Common alone.

'The Francis family conscionable asked them, done their attorney, to attraction their power connected thing else. She asked them to attraction their power toward nan passing of this coercive power act,' he said. 

'I would inquire that they time off churchgoers alone. These mediocre group are conscionable trying to spell to religion connected Sundays, and they're being harassed and being put successful fear.' 

John-Paul Miller now will debar immoderate civilian wrongful decease suits connected to his wife's death.

Mica's sister, Sierra Frances, had revenge a petition to summation power complete her property but that petition has besides been withdrawn. 

The position of nan full settlement, including who will administrate Mica's estate, are confidential.

Mica's termination captured nationalist attraction aft John-Paul delivered a sermon announcing her decease to his congregants, wherever he abruptly ended proceedings for nan time demanding he not beryllium questioned. 

Dome net sleuths claimed that he had a manus successful her death, pinch immoderate spotting him wearing nan aforesaid necklace Mica was wearing erstwhile she died. 

But John-Paul insisted he was not pinch his woman that time erstwhile she changeable herself at Lumbee River State Park successful North Carolina. 

'I was successful Charleston pinch astir 100 group from my kids' school,' John-Paul - a celebrated pastor pinch a criminal grounds that includes aggregate counts of aggravated battle and artillery - told NewsNation. 

'We were each together astatine nan shot fields that day. Afterwards, aft nan shot game, personification was pinch maine nan full time... personification that I emotion much than thing other connected satellite Earth... was pinch me. 

'And we went shopping successful Charleston. And we sewage nutrient successful Charleston. And there's each nan receipts from that passim nan time.' 

In a bizarre claim, John-Paul said his woman would person been successful an 'incredibly euphoric attitude' connected nan time she died - aft eerie images showed her smiling while buying a gun hours earlier she changeable herself. 

'Someone sent maine screenshots of nan Dick’s pawn shop pictures, wherever she's smiling, which retired of nan six aliases 7 times that she tried to perpetrate termination successful nan past, only 1 of those times was she depressed,' he continued. 

'The different times, she was very euphoric. And she would aftermath up and say, "I deliberation I'm expected to dice today."' 

He said that these instances would beryllium triggered by Mica not taking her medications, arsenic he claimed that he warned her family that she would termination herself 'if y'all don't get her her lithium.' 

'I told her friends this, I told everybody,' he said, adding that erstwhile he sewage news of Mica's suicide, his guidance was: 'I told y'all.' 

He besides said that erstwhile Mica would return her medications, 'we had nan top matrimony you could ever imagine.' 

John-Paul said he did not judge his woman was murdered, a declare backed up by a toxicology study that wished her origin of death was termination and she had not been drugged. 

After John-Paul's sermon announcing his wife's death, he implied that he had laid pinch her assemblage successful nan morgue, sparking interest from immoderate observers. 

But he now claims that he couldn't laic pinch her because of nan position of her assemblage successful a coffin, but he did opportunity that he 'hugged her' and 'sat connected nan level and conscionable talked to her for a while.' 

The pastor added he past attempted to raise her from nan dead, but unsurprisingly his attempts astatine resurrection did not work. 

John-Paul besides admitted that an apology missive he wrote to his woman that emerged aft her decease was legitimate, successful which he said he was sorry for manipulating her including slashing her tires and search her movements.

Miller, a celebrated pastor pinch a criminal grounds that includes aggregate counts of aggravated battle and battery, attributes his erstwhile soundlessness to 'wisdom and self-control'.

He stated really his intent to uncover nan truth down his wife's decease and claiming, 'Mica will person justice.' 

Following a tribunal proceeding connected June 5, 2024, Mica's family was granted authorities to her belongings and called for legislative changes to a home unit bill, proposing it beryllium named 'Mica's Law.' 

Authorities person antecedently stated that John-Paul Miller was not coming astatine nan segment of Mica's decease and released 911 telephone recordings together pinch photos and surveillance footage showing Mica purchasing a weapon earlier walking to North Carolina the time of her suicide.

Miller has consistently denied immoderate abuse, asserting, 'She has ne'er erstwhile been abused arsenic agelong arsenic she has been joined to me.'

The Robeson County Sheriff's Office, pinch assistance from nan FBI, has been progressive successful nan investigation.