The victims range in age from 5 to 72 years old. Among the dead, the pastors 14 yearold daughter. Cbs reporter courtney sabowskri is in Sutherland Springs, texas, with more on how it unfolded. Reporter between 40 to 50 people attended services at the First Baptist church in Sutherland Springs this morning. At about 11 15 witnesses say a single man with a gun walked in and opened fire on the congregation. As many as four dozen people were reportedly wounded. About half of them were killed. At least at this moment in time there are 26 lives that have been lost. Reporter the gunman reportedly fled the scene in a vehicle. Police are said to have pursued him north into guadalupe county. Thats where the gunman was killed. Its unclear if he was shot or if he took his own life. The incident prompted a massive response from local, state and even federal Law Enforcement agencies. The fbi and the department of Homeland Security have already joined the investigation. Sutherland springs is about 35
Leave. Everybodys in here trying to load their stuff up and in the middle of it they told us we were no longer allowed. They were condemning it. Epa test results came back late thursday night showing Dangerous Levels inside the park. We did red tag that Mobile Home Park. Right now the number one priority is their safety and health. We department want to f put them at any risk with the asbestos levels around there. The city of santa rosa along with fema and the epa held a meeting to talk with residents. Explain the situation and outline next steps. The mission is to get in there, get cleaned up and allow people to get back to the recovery process. For michelle it feels like another setback, yet another delay in trying to regain some normalcy. I just want to go home. My mom just wants to go home. Our animals just want to go home. Its definitely a difficult situation for everyone here. The epa says their top priority is to get residents access into the park. But they wont be able to come
Unconfirmed the suspects. A suspect, has been taken away on a stretcher. We dont know how he sustained injuries only that he was taken away. His alleged accomplice did get away, which led to this armed Police Officers, armed to a t, looking for this man for more than three hours. The last time they saw him he was in a creek. This began today over the mountain in Sonoma County at the bank as we talked about the Armed Robbery, the suspects were told by police have two ak47ers. We dont know his condition yet. There are police at every corner and police in neighborhoods going house to house, searching creeks, asking neighbors and any neighbors unable to get to their homes. Wayne, thank you. As this story develops, stay with abc7 news to learn the latest information. Down load our abc7 news app now and enable push alerts. Breaking news in pinole. The chp is investigating reports of another freeway shooting on interstate 880. The chp tells us investigators have no evidence of a crime. The ch
Active search continues now for the other. A command post has been set up. That is where Wayne Freedman is live for us tonight. Wayne . Reporter there are elements we dont want to show you. Something to help mofrs do their job and there are certain elements we can show you. That is the Highway Patrol vehicle keeping people from going in. If you look to the right there are more Police Officers guarding a creek, because they expect this person theyre looking for may have tried to escape through the creek. Lets begin with a search here in calistoga roughly three hours ago. Police saying they want residents to stay away. This is the suspect who got away from what appears to have been an usual arrest. We have video for you. Calistoga police car youll see there. Were hearing but have not yet confirmed to get the suspect it rammed the vehicle and possibly unconfirmed the suspects. A suspect, has been taken away on a stretcher. We dont know how he sustained injuries only that he was taken away
Surprise when he came faceto face with a 300 pound alligator. Not how you want to wake up seeing a gator but you do want to wake up here and thanks for joining us. I am ashley yore. I am james tully. Lets go to the peoples champion, bill logan, most accurate forecast. You must of had a lot of fun. The storms are coming out of nowhere. They are called popcorn storms because you get them popping up out of the middle of the day. Then they move on. The storms happened like that yesterday. Right now were seeing showers to the south towards southeast fort pierce and also storms in the gulf of mexico. That is all that is left but we will see a migration of this storms firing earlier this afternoon. We are also seeing the rain lingering around to the southern parts of louisiana although it is back in off backing off towards houston. New orleans is being left alone but they are dealing with lots of flooding rain there. 80 degrees in tampa, and clearwater. Through the day, we see a rainbow storm