6 people dead last Sunday and b.r.s. Nathan Rott reports that authorities say the gunman had been sending threatening texts to his mother in law who was a church member there are still a lot of questions in Wilson County Texas but here s what authorities do know the 26 year old gunman had a history of domestic violence he was court martialed in 2012 by the Air Force for cracking his child s school and assaulting his wife and that history should have prevented him from being able to buy the weapons he used in Sunday s attack but the Air Force says it failed to enter his conviction into the federal crime database Authorities believe the gunman was having an ongoing domestic issue with his in-laws who attended the 1st Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs they do not know if that was the sole motive for the massacre the gunman died shortly after the shooting 8th and n.p.r. News Wilson County Texas the House Ways and Means Committee are heading into the 2nd day of deliberations on a broad