(This article was updated with new information)

The congregation sat mostly quiet as Jeffrey A. Johnson II explained what happened. A situation that normally would've stayed within the family had landed on social media before his father, a legacy pastor with decades of service, was set to be honored .

Before church doors opened at their campuses and people filed into the pews, the mugshot of Jeffrey Allen Johnson Sr. was making the rounds on Facebook, gathering shares and reactions. It made little difference that court documents detailing what Fishers Police say happened weren't available — judgment was being cast against the 63-year-old prominent pastor and father of four accused of misdemeanor domestic battery.

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