Choir director charged with harassment

Matthew Felts, choir director at the First Christian Church, harassed a person multiple times through phone calls and a Facebook post before his arrest July 4, according to a probable cause statement written by MU Police officer Thomas Genson.

Felts left a voicemail with the business of a person identified in the statement only as E.M. on July 3. The next day during a mutually agreed-upon phone call, Felts used multiple racial slurs against E.M and called the person's wife a "slut" and "whore," Genson wrote.

During that call, he also allegedly made vague threats to E.M.'s safety.

According to the probable cause statement, Felts "made a Facebook post calling E.M.'s wife a whore and challenging E.M. to come to his house."

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