David Gene Fullen

1968 - 1992  (23 years)

• Name	David Gene Fullen  [1]
  Birth	17 Aug 1968	Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 May 1992	Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas   [1, 2]
  Notes	Slaying ends a religious mission Arlington man charged in death of 'street minister' By Kristen N. Sullivan Arlington-David Fullen's mission for the past few weeks had been to draw 2,000 banners for this weekend's March for Jesus in downtown Fort Worth, his mother said. The last banner, depicting a crown of thorns on a 4-foot-high cross, hangs unfinished on his bedroom wall in Carol Fullen's west Arlignton apartment. Police said Fullen's mission was cut short about 4:30 a.m. Saturday when he was run over three time by a pickup in the parking lot of a neighborhood bar. Cliff M. Livingston, 42, of the 1300 block of Ashbury Drive, was charged with murder yesterday in the killing outside Tanstaafl Pub, 409 N. Bowen Road. Livingston was arrested Saturday... "David's a real good talker, and I think he began ministering to this guy and sent the man into a tizzy," said Danny Smith, Fullen's associate pastor at Arlington Christian Center, 801 Bardin Road. "I think David was matyred for his faitn." Fullen, 23, became what friends called a "street minister" about three years ago after joining the southwest Arlington church. Most evenings, he dressed in his black motorcycle jacket and black boots, collected his Bible and the pamplets he wrote describing his religious experiences and headed for Dallas' West End Marketplace or Deep Ellum, said Carol Fullen, his mother. About 1:30 Saturday moning, Fullen joined a neighbor, Jesus Estrada, at Tanstaafl Pub next door to his Bowen Road apartment complex. At Tanstaafl, the two friends began talking to Livingston, witnesses said. "I was sitting at the bar between the man and David," said Estrada, 25. "When the bar was about to close, the guy said, "Let's go to his house and have a couple of beer." The three men left the bar in Livingston's 1987 gray Chevrolet S10 pickup....Livingston (later) drove them back to the pub. Back at the bar, Estrada and Fullen climbed out of the pickup, police said. Fullen walked toward the tailgate, and the truck backed into Fullen, then ran over him three times, Estrada said. "I ran to David and tried to pick him up," Estrada said, "He couldn't get up." "He was just laying there," Estrad said. "I said: 'Don't give up. Don't give up, man."...Fullen ws pronounced dead at the scene. Fullen, who portrayed Jesus this spring in Arlington Christian Center's Easter pagent, had completed several religious drawings for this weekend's interdominational march. Smith said children at the church are drawing and photocopying other banners to finish Fullen's work. (Courtesy of Veronica Fullen Limsky)
  Person ID	I29692	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Otto Wingo Fullen, Jr.,   b. 26 Jul 1941, Dallas County, Texas d. 29 Jul 1985, Dallas County, Texas (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Living
  Family ID	F8032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Aug 1968 - Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming Death - 17 May 1992 - Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Fullen, David Gene David served as an associate pastor at Arlington Christian Center, and worked as a "street minister" until his death.

  
  

• Sources

  [S599] Limsky, Veronia Fullen-Family Researcher (veronicalimsky@tx.rr.com). [S334] Rootsweb, Texas Death Records, 1964 thru 1998.