Months after Mica Miller’s death, FBI raids pastor’s home

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The FBI searched the home of John-Paul Miller, the South Carolina pastor whose wife, Mica, died by suicide in April.

An FBI spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from PEOPLE, but WBTW, WPDE and The Sun News all reported that agents were seen outside the home of John-Paul Miller in Horry County, SC

Both WPDE and WBTW both reported that an FBI spokesman said the agency was conducting “court-authorized law enforcement activity” at the home.

Miller’s attorney, Russell Long, confirmed that the FBI searched the house in a statement to PEOPLE.

“They executed a search warrant at his house this morning, as expected,” Long said. “Nothing new really. Hopefully this is the end of it.”

Mica Miller, 30, was found dead at a state park in Robeson County, NC, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to local authorities.

Mica and John-Paul, who is pastor at Solid Rock on Market Common in Myrtle Beach, were estranged at the time of her death. Just over a week before she died, Mica filed for separate support and maintenance against John-Paul, which is the same as a legal separation, the Horry County Clerk of Court’s Office told PEOPLE.

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Mica’s loved ones have speculated that foul play may have been involved in her death, but local authorities have strongly pushed back, saying evidence of a suicide was “clear and convincing.”

The search of John-Paul’s home in Horry County comes months after the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office told PEOPLE in May that the FBI was conducting a “parallel investigation” unrelated to Mica’s death.

“There is no evidence linking him to her death,” Damien McLean of the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office told PEOPLE in May. “(The FBI) ​​is investigating separately from her death. Her death has been ruled (a) suicide.”

The FBI has not disclosed what the nature of the investigation is.

• Wendy Grossman Kantor contributed reporting