Sutherland springs with the very latest on the investigation and whats going on there right now. Sarah . Reporter well, good morning. This is a community in shock and grief. 26 people dead in a town of just several hundred, it seems everyone knew someone inside the church. In what was supposed to be a sanctuary, shots fired. In front of the church. In front of the church. Reporter during sunday services at First Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, texas. 26 people were killed, between 12 to 14 were children. My husband actually went to the church to render aid and hes a strong man, but he turned around and came back. He just he he said, i cant do it. Reporter Law Enforcement tells us that devin kelley wearing black and Tactical Gear opened fire outside the church before continuing inside, shooting at parishioners. He exited the church, a local resident, grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect. Reporter kelley ran and was later found dead inside his car, although its not clear yet
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He was a hard worker. A very, very good man. As they cope with one of the worst Mass Shootings in u. S. History. Today, monday, november 6th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today, texas Church Shooting. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. We start this show the way weve started way too many shows in the past, trying to get answers to another act of unspeakable violence. Hard to believe it happened again. We want to get to the latest overnight. As we mentioned, at least 26 people were killed, 20 others wounded. And the youngest victim was just 5 years old. Also dead the gunman identified as 26yearold devin kelley. Police said he was dressed in black tacticalstyle gear and armed with an Assault Rifle. He opened fire outside of the First Baptist church near san antonio then went inside and turned that weapon on specting. Investigators are poring through his backgrou
Continues our coverage right now. All right. One similarity in all of those shootings is unlike a lot of other developed countries, the availability of guns. A lot of opinions about that. The fact is, that is the distinction in the United States. In no other developed country are there as many guns as readily available to people. What you do about that, whether you even think its a problem, that is the problem and a commonality. Sigh later. And im ali velshi feet from the church where a gunman opened fire killing 26 people. Breaking, nbc news learned the suspect was convicted during his time in the military of fracturing the skull of his infant stepson. Error today, we learned he had been sending threatening sexes to his motherinlaw who attended that church. Also learning more about the victims. Youngest of whom was only 18 months old. Many of the People Killed were from the same families. One man is now mourning his children, his grandchildren and his greatgrandchildren. Eight people
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