Ronnie Killingsworth
Ronnie Killingsworth, 79, was the longtime pastor of Rephidim Church in Wichita Falls, and he had heart trouble. He was taken to a hospital from the Pack Unit in Navasota, a Texas state prison, for shortness of breath, and he was pronounced dead there early on January 2, 2025. A Texas Attorney General custodial death report lists a preliminary cause of cardiac arrest and respiratory failure and describes the death as natural. The medical examiner or coroner's determination of the cause was still pending.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Texas Attorney General's Office custodial death report lists a preliminary cause of cardiac arrest and respiratory failure and calls the death natural, with a medical examiner's determination still pending.
Reported by: Texas Office of the Attorney General (outside investigators).