| Timothy Thomas Coombs was a highly respected | | | | premises of Sacerdotal Order of the David Company, |
| religious leader in McDonald County, MO. The right | | | | Pastor Joos went to prison for three years. Timothy |
| hand of Pastor Robert Joos of the Sacerdotal Order | | | | Coombs openly vowed revenge on the arresting |
| of the David Company, he held the title of | | | | officer, State Trooper Bobby Harper. He began to |
| Ambassador. He liked to refer to himself as a | | | | practice shooting, inadvertently lodging a bullet in his |
| "Nazarite". Coombs was considered very intelligent by | | | | neighbor's horse. |
| the locals. He was a prominent figure and his | | | | On September 16, 1994, Coombs was lying in wait by |
| appearance fit his reputation. He wore wire-rimmed | | | | Bobby's house, where the officer was convalescing |
| glasses, thick sideburns, and his hazel eyes shone with | | | | after a liver transplant. When a chance presented |
| pure religious fervor. He took special care with his | | | | itself, Coombs shot Bobby Harper in the stomach, |
| clothing, always wearing religious lace or fringe around | | | | destroying his new liver. Although Harper had survived |
| his shirt and pant cuffs. | | | | the shooting, he soon died after another operation. The |
| When in 1994, police discovered an impressive arsenal | | | | bullet removed from Bobby Harper's body matched |
| of assault weapons, ammunition and dynamite on the | | | | the bullet found in Coombs' neighbor's horse. |