1819 News, an “investigative journalism” outlet, is taking heat after a local pastor killed himself. But its CEO is firing back on critics: “We did our job.”
F.L. "Bubba" Copeland, the late mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama, and pastor of the First Baptist Church of Phenix City, faced some “dark days” before fatally shooting himself in the wake of withering backlash over his secret online alter ego known as the "transgender curvy girl” outed by a local publication, friends say.