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The friends of a pastor's wife who shot herself dead after claiming she was being abused by her husband have insisted she did not take her own life.

Mica Miller, 30, was found dead at Lumbee River State Park, North Carolina, on April 27, weeks after speaking about abuse within her marriage to John-Paul Miller, 44.

Her friends Kenn and Allicia Young have now insisted on NewsNation that Mica did not take her own life.

Allicia Young, who is a member of the Solid Rock Church alongside her husband Kenn, said: 'I absolutely do not believe that she took her own life.'

The allegations come as it is revealed Horry County Police Department officer Nick D'Amocamtonio filed an incident report on March 11 which said: 'The victim advised me she was afraid for her life.'

'I absolutely do not believe that she took her own life because she was energetic and her faith in God was unwavering,' Allicia said. 

'She was always quick to encourage somebody else, including myself. We went to lunches together, we worked out together.'

The Miller's shocking claims, along with D'Amocamtonio's unnerving police report, have further fueled speculation there is 'more to the story.'

Mica's cause of death was ruled to be a 'self-inflicted gunshot wound' by a medical examiner, but her family has continued to insist it's not the case.

In the days after her death, her friends and family held a rally calling for 'justice for Mica' outside the Solid Rock Church where Pastor Miller works. 

The pastor stunned his congregants last week when, after a service in which he had laughed and appeared entirely at ease, he announced that his wife had died and that her death was 'self-induced.'

On Monday, Robeson County Medical Examiner Dr. Richard Johnson told ABC: 'Based on the nature of the wound, that it is consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. And it was not in the back of the head, as it has been speculated.' 

Weeks before she died Mica posted an emotional video in which she spoke of abuse within marriage and offered support to 'ANYONE struggling with leaving a dangerous situation because they think God will be 'mad' at them.'

She said: 'Today my heart's a little heavy. I've had lots of women that have reached out to me about situations of abuse, and I just want to tell you what a lot of people have told me lately, because I think I forgot.

'But you are the bride of Christ before anybody else's, male or female, it doesn't matter what gender you are, abuse is abuse.'

On Monday, before her cause of death was announced, ABC reported that Mica had filed police reports against a man - whose name was redacted in the reports - in March accusing him of harassing her. 

She had told officers that she was 'afraid for her life', had found a tracking device on her car and had her tires repeatedly deflated. 

After her death, Myrtle Beach pastor Miller stunned his congregation at Solid Rock at Market Common Church in South Carolina when announced that his wife had died and that her death was 'self-induced.'

He then told worshippers that he would be taking 'a little break' and to leave the church without discussing what he had just told them.

In the days since Mica's death on April 27, her family had pushed back at her husband's explanation of it as suicide.