John berman here in Sutherland Springs, texas, for cnns special coverage of the Church Massacre that is now the deadliest mass shooting in texas history, but only the deadliest in u. S. History since last month. 26 people are dead including a 17monthold baby. John, i am so glad youre with me for this hour here live in texas. Im Brooke Bolduan in new york. Breaking at this hour, we are learning another murder victim was lula white, the grandmother of the shooters wife. Investigators just revealed that the gunman had sent threats to other members of his wifes family. One thing everybody wants to know is why did this happen. Its a senseless crime, but we can tell you that there was a domestic situation going on within this family. The suspects motherinlaw attended this church. We know that he had made threatening texts from him and we cant go into details about that domestic situation that is continuing to be vetted and thoroughly investigated. We want to get that out there that this was
short. and then there are the eight members of the same family viciously gunned down. just to show you the enormity of this, we put together just the tree, the family tree. it s just so heartbreaking. there is cara holcombe. she was one of the eight members with her husband bryan, danny their son, noah their 17-month-old daughter, crystal, two months pregnant, her three children and another two of her children survived and are in the hospital with their stepfather john, her husband. and of course the pastor who wasn t there that day, he lost his 14-year-old daughter annabelle. they weren t there. they were out of town. but interestingly enough the 14-year-old went to church on her own, brooke. on her own. we continue to say their names, lift up their names in these days and weeks in the wake of this just horrendous shooting. coming up next, we re going to talk to you a little bit