Police shot and killed a man, identified by law enforcement as Devin Kelley, 26, of New Braunfels, Texas, Sunday in Sutherland Springs after he allegedly opened fire on a community church. At least 25 people were killed and many more were injured in the attack. Kelly was identified by police as the shooter and was believed to be the sole person responsible.
Kelley reportedly entered the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs and began shooting Sunday afternoon. The town lies about 30 miles southeast of San Antonio. No motive had yet been ascertained in the shooting, Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackett told NBC News. Kelly reportedly lived in a suburb of San Antonio and did not appear to be linked to any organized terrorist groups, an official told the Associated Press.
“Apparently the shooter was not from the area, he was from outside of that area,” Texas Congressman Vincente Gonzalez told MSNBC.
JUST IN: Church shooting suspect identified as Devin Kelley, of New Braunfels, Texas, according to state and federal law enforcement sources
— ABC News (@ABC) November 5, 2017
Kelly was reportedly a former United States Air Force service member, CBS News reported. He received a dishonorable discharge and was court-martialed in 2014. Investigators said they were looking into Kelley’s alleged social media posts, including one that may have shown an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon.
“I talked to one of gunman Devin Kelly’s Facebook friends, who says Kelly was randomly adding strangers and starting fights on Facebook,” Los Angeles Times correspondent Matt Pearce tweeted.
Initial reports suggested at least one child, a 2-year-old, was among those shot. The 14-year-old daughter of the church’s pastor was also killed in the attack, according to Fox News.
“[The shooting] lasted about 15 seconds,” Carrie Matula, a resident who was working at a gas station across the street from the church at the time of the shooting, told WPLG. “I yelled ‘Get down! Get inside! And we all went into hiding.”
The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting in the aftermath of the shooting, according to the Associated Press. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called the shooting “the largest mass shooting in Texas history” during a Sunday evening press conference.
“May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas,” President Donald Trump tweeted.
May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2017
First Baptist Church Pastor Frank Pomeroy tells ABC his 14yr-old daughter is among the dead—Says she "was one very beautiful, special child"
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) November 5, 2017
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THATS IT ASSHOLES……………. THAT POOR “PASTORS” DAUGHTER WAS SHOT BY THAT MEAN ‘OLE LONE GUNMAN……..
WHY WAS IT OK FOR THE BATF TO SLAUGHTER THE CHILDREN AT WACO?????
“AS YE SOW” TRUMP VOTERS…………. “AS YE SOW”……………
If liberal democrats would stop killing people the US murder rate would drop by 90%.
OMG SON, DID YOU JUST STUMBLE ON HERE OR IS SOROS PAYING YOUR SCHILLING ASS??????
Some people just can’t seem to understand that there’s a d-left finger and an r-right finger leading them by their f’g noses. I guess they feel somebody has to represent them?! Wake the F up.
Lol. Well said
Well…I’ve tried to make sense of this…
But with patterns forming of church killins.
I would have to say….
If you wanted to disrupt a hierarchical system.
All you have to do is shoot up a church every Sunday.
I mean. ..really… they show up at one spot every week.
Just begging to their god to be shot at one place
A synagogue. ..
A mosque. ..
A shrine…
A church. …
If you have any common sense.
I would just stay at home Sunday.
He shot all the conservatives for Hillary and as Obama stated these mass shootings will continue until you give the U.S.A. E.U. globalist government your guns. These mass shootings will continue until you give the left your guns .
Just curious Mr. WIL E.KOYOTE, if you are so cerebrally gifted, how is it you can’t even get the facts correct. It was the FBI and the1st Cavalry Division of the Army’s III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas, who were responsible for the deaths of those women and children at Waco.
According to a report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the list of military personnel and equipment used at Waco included: 15 active-duty military personnel, 13 Texas National Guard personnel, nine Bradley fighting vehicles, five combat-engineer vehicles, one tank-retrieval vehicle and two M1A1 Abrams tanks. Additionally, Fort Hood reportedly was used for much of the training for the bloody attack on the Davidians and their children.
You left out the helicopter gun ships and the pieces of shit inside them, firing into the structure killing innocent people.
Thank God one of the davidians took one of them out with a great shot.
The BATF weren’t there slaughtering alongside?
WELL “STEVIE”………………. THE BATFE WAS RIGHT THERE KILLING AS WELL…………………………………………
And it was THEIR(aholes treasonous f***s) warrant.
“It was the FBI and the1st Cavalry Division of the Army’s III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas, who were responsible for the deaths of those women and children at Waco.”
No, JANET RENO was responsible, dumb@ss.
Those you mentioned DON’T MAKE THE CALL. DUH!!!
15 seconds, 57+ hits, almost half kill ratio…chairforce vets sure are trained well in small arms. And how exactly does one start “fights” on facef**k? It’s online and it’s words but it ain’t fighting.
Hmmmm. Truck murder by Islamic terrorist in New York. Air Force reject white guy shooting up a rural church….Wasn’t somebody shot in Vegas?
YEP!!
BY A LONE GUNMAN FIRING FROM THE NOSEBLEED SECTION WITH A .22 AND A BUMP STOCK……………
Double hmmm. Preached the ways of Antifa. They’ll throw pictures of rifle up. Not a single garble about belonging to the group.