Just two hours earlier, the school had shared, “with a heavy heart,” that Gunner had “gone missing overnight.” School officials requested prayers “for the Blair family and for Gunner’s safe return.”
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Pastor Blair, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, received the Purple Heart after being wounded in battle in Iraq. He serves as senior pastor of Langston Baptist Church, a congregation that belongs to the Southern Baptist Convention. He and his wife, Tristan, have three children.