Dealer replaces Ford F-150 of man who ran over alleged church shooter
A Michigan dealership has replaced the 2018 Ford F-150 of Richard Pryor, who ran over a man he saw firing a rifle and handgun outside a suburban Detroit church, reports Automotive News. Pryor, a deacon at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, was arriving late for June 22 services when he saw the shooter, clad in a tactical vest.
'I'm just realizing there's no time,' Pryor told Automotive News and other media July 10, saying the man, later identified as Brian Browning, who had attended the church occasionally with his mother. 'I didn't have a weapon on me, in the truck or anything, so what are your options?'
Pryor ran over Browning, who reports say began firing at the truck. Browning was killed by two other church staff members armed with their own guns. Police told ABC News that the actions of the three church staff 'prevented a large-scale mass shooting.' But while this use of a vehicle as a weapon appears to have done some good, others, such as the 2017 attack on protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a Dodge Challenger, show that like any other weapon, a car can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
F-150 Reward
The truck was Pryor's only vehicle, and was left out of commission after the incident. Jack Demmer Ford reportedly gave Pryor a free two-year lease on a new F-150, worth about $70,000. Full-size pickups can get much more expensive than that, of course, given the tendency of Ford and other brands to devise lineups top-heavy with high-end models.
The F-Series—encompassing the half-ton F-150 and the heavy-duty Super Duty trucks—has been the bestselling vehicle line in the United States for decades, and that trend continued with Ford's recently-reported second-quarter sales results. The automaker reported an 11.5% increase in F-Series sales to 222,459—the best quarter for the truck line since 2019.
However, Ford also issued 89 recalls in the first six months of 2025, surpassing a record for annual recalls set by General Motors in 2014. The F-150 is included in some of them, including one recall of over a million vehicles to address a software issue that prevents rearview cameras from displaying a proper live feed.
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