Old to 72 years old. At least eight members of one family were killed. The 14yearold daughter of the churchs pastor, a pregnant mother. Horrific, heartbreaking, inexplicable. The question in community is asking, this country is asking this morning, frankly, the question it needs to ask, was this preventable . The killer is an air force veteran who spent a year in military confinement for domestic violence. He was released from the military on a bad conduct discharge. He is dead this morning, either shot by himself or by a citizen who undoubtedly saved lives by chasing him to the next county. The sheriff now says the shooters inlaws attended this church, but they were not at yesterdays service. They did come after they heard what happened. President trump is in asia, where today he attributed the texas killings to a Mental Health problem at the highest level. So many questions this morning. We are live in tokyo in just a moment. First, here with me in Sutherland Springs, ed lavendera wh
Deadly rampage. Why. Why did this happen . It hurts. The pain is there. The hurt is there. Theres no words for all these families. What theyre going through. A hoff risk sight. You dont expect to walk into a church and see Something Like that, especially like when all the bodies were still there, you know. Seeing the children, thats what hurts the most. 26 are dead range in age from 5 to 72 years old. One family lost eight loved ones. 20 more people injured. Nearly 50 killed or wounded in a town which has a population of only several hundred, at a time. The killer is dead as well. Just this morning we learned his inlaws were actually members of this church in Sutherland Springs, though not there at the time of the shooting. The news reaching overseas overnight as President Trump was in tokyo. A guns situation. I mean we could go into it, but its a little soon to go into it. Somebody else had a gun shooting in the opposite direction otherwise it would have been as bad as it was, it woul
what you re listening to is frank and sherry pomeroy, the parents of 14-year-old belle pomeroy. the 14-year-old girl who was killed in that shooting. the pastor, this is the pastor, there is the picture right there of belle pomeroy. what you re listening to right there is sherri also speak being their congregation. that is the pastor and his wife of that church that were not there yesterday when this all played out. most of our church family is gone, shiri pomeroy said and asking for everyone s prayers. we are learning more about victims like the other 25 victims of that massacre yesterday. cnn is here with me now with their stories. allison? you think about anna bell pomeroy. she is 14 and her parents were not at the church.
p pomeroy, and his wife, sherri pomeroy, they were not here for the service yesterday during the shooting, but their daughter was. and now we re learning much more about 14-year-old belle pomeroy. alisyn kosich joins me now with that and more on the 26 victims. annabelle s mother, sherri, released a statement to cnn. it is just heart wrenching. i m going to read it in its entirety. we lost more than belle yesterday, and the one thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement was the fact that belle was surrounded by her church family that she loved so fiercely and vice versa. our church was not comprised of members or parishioners. we were a very close family. we ate together, we laughed together, we cried together, and we worshiped together. now most of our church family is gone, our building is probably beyond repair, and a few of us that are left behind lost tragically yesterday. as senseless as this tragedy