LUANDA, Angola – A Minnesota missionary was murdered in a remote area of this former in Portuguese colony. Authorities called it “a volent criminal attack.” Beau Shroyer, 44, and his family had moved from Detroit Lakes in Minnesota to this west Africa country three years ago. They were with the SIM Christian missionary project out of North Carolin. Shroyer, his wife and five children lived in a remote Nyneka village and proselytized and farmed. Few details were available in Luanda, the Angola capital, where the U.S. Embassy is located. Friends in Detroit Lakes said Shroyer had visited home last summer and described working with the Nyneka people, whom he described as among the most marginalized groups in Angola. He talked about a child, Mauricio, who walked half of each day to school and back. Shroyer showed a picture of himself spreading manure by hand over a 130-foot by 50-foot agricultural plot.
Shroyer. In third year as Christian missionary in Angola.