Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday that Harris and the suspect's wife had exchanged text messages before she filed the rape complaint.
The sheriff's department says Karey found the messages on his wife's cellphone on Sept. 21, a few days before she filed the complaint and less than a week before the shooting.
It's not clear if there was a consensual relationship or not, and that will be a focus of the investigation, Mancuso said.
"We're trying to put all the pieces together," Mancuso said.
The sheriff declined to release a copy of the rape complaint, saying it's part of the ongoing investigation.
Mancuso said search warrants for phone records and other evidence may help paint a better picture of what led to the pastor's death.
So was it rape, or she was fucking the pastor
