With so much pain in the world right now — from Statesboro to Ferguson, Missouri, and all the way into Iraq and Syria — community leaders and friends and family members of a Statesboro man who was gunned down last week came together to pray. More than 40 people in all gathered inside the sweltering sanctuary of Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Peachtree Street. They mourned with the family and friends of Eric Alexander Reese, the 46-year-old man whose life was cut short by gunfire at his apartment complex, Park Place Apartments on Lanier Drive, at about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 15.