Officials say a Good Samaritan unrelented continued to pursue the gunman. Short time later, as Law Enforcement responded, that suspect right at the wilson guadeloupe county line ran off the roadway and crashed out. Find deceased in his vehicle. At that time, we dont know we dont know if it was self infligted gunshot wound or shot by local resident who engaged him in gunfire. Multiple weapons in the suspects vehicle. Been identified as 26yearold. All we know about him at this point comes from air force spoke woman. Court marshalled on 2012 on two charges of assaulting spouse and child. Confined for a year. Reduced in rank and given bad conduct discharge. Not a lot of information there. The trick of that information coming in slowly. I mentioned earlier, my colleague on the ground in southernland springs texas. The big question here is why. Why he would walk in and fire on 26 individuals, including children and kill them. A lot of people scratching their heads there. Youve been on the ground a couple of hours. What are you learning. The motivation is going to be central to the investigation. Let me set the scene. At an intersection where a lot unfolded. The wooden frame of the church. Police have cordened off the area. Going through the forensic evidence all around. 26 People Killed. 23 killed inside the church. Two bodies recovered outside the church. One died at the hospital. According to officials he began this rampage at the gas station. Parked vehicle and got out and walked across the street and began firing. One of the eyewitnesss who heard that barrage of gunfire. The ages and the personalities and the stories of the People Killed. Ages from 5 years old to 72. A guest pastor and his wife both killed according to son speaking to new york times. We also spoke to a grandmother who told us that four of her grandchildren as well were shot. One of them at least confirmed killed. I was is a heart breaking story unfolding here. You know everyone in the Community Knows somebody who attended this church. You were asking about the shooter and his motivations. Lets bring in nbc correspondent. Shes here as well on the ground following the very latest of the investigation. Marianna, what more can you tell us about the shooter. What we know is that this man is 26 years old. He was formerly part of the air force. He was discharged. There was a record of him having assaulted his wife, assaulted his wild. We also know he wasnt from Sutherland Springs. He was from a nearby county. The reason he walked from where you are now to this church behind me, First Baptist church and opened fire killing 26 people is still unknown. This church behind me is of course the scene of a deadliest mass shooting at a house of worship in the americas history. We go through this tick tok. Also important to know that the pastor at River Oaks Church is a few miles up the road. He was conducting his service when he heard about the shooting that had gone on in this church and he said they immediately came here and started to help. They became pretty much first responders. Also, we know that after the gunman opened fire here at First Baptist church, he was confronted right here in this area behind me by a local resident. A local resident that pretty much took his rifle and forced him to flee here to get in highs vehicle and drive a couple of miles up the road. We have that sound bite from this local resident, local hero and i want you to hear him describe what happened, that confrontation. Lets listen. I just did what i thought i needed to do. Which was they said theres a shooting. I pursued and i just did what i thought was the right thing. You know there were more weapons in that car. You possibly stopped him from killing other people. I didnt know that. Johnny longford. That is the name of the local hero who possibly saved many more lives. The gunman he drove off in his vehicle. Multiple weapons found there. That happened a couple miles from this crime scene where were standing now. Ayman, back to you. Thank you for that. We know he had more weapons. Certainly had tactical gear, ballistic vest. Indication he wanted the rampage to last as long as possible. Yasmin, back to you. A lot of people looking to the president for guidance who was overseas on the first leg of his trip. Calling it a quote, horrible act of evil. Our hearts are broken, but in dark times and these are dark times, such as these, americans do want they do best. We pull together. We join hands, we lock arms. And through the tears and through the sadness, we stand strong. Oh, so strong. During a joint press conference, President Trump was asked what policies he might support in response to the shooting. Heres how he responded. I think Mental Health is the problem here. This was a very deranged individual. A lot of problems over a long period of time. We have a lot of Mental Health problems in our country as do other countries, but this isnt a guns situation. We could go into it. Its a little soon to go into it. Fortunately somebody had a gun shooting in the opposite direction or it would have been much worse. This is a Mental Health problem at the highest level. Its a very sad event. These are great people and a very, very sad event, but thats the way i view it. Officials say 23 people were deceased inside the church. Two found outside the church and one person died at the hospital. This is video from last weeks Church Service at First Baptist in Sutherland Springs texas. Among the victims were told is the pastors 14yearold daughter. Were told pastor frank and his wife were out of town at the time of the shooting. 20 others suffered minor to severe injuries there. Kind offerry to see the church before the shooting rampage was to take place. Among those in the hospital is fiveyearold ryeland ward. Now out of surgery. Shot five times. In stable condition. Play sound bite from his grandmother who i had the opportunity to speak to yesterday. Just devastating there. Louis. As we mentioned before, President Trump is in tokyo, first leg of extended asia trip. Just hours ago prime minster abe and more rhetorically restrained trump spoke at length about the dominant topic in the region, north korea. The era of strategic patience is over. Some people said that my rhetoric is very strong, but look what happened with very weak rhetoric over the past 25 years. Look where we are now. As far as is north Korean People are concerned, steve, i think these are great people. Theyre under a very repressive regime. I really think that ultimately i can tell you this, that i hope it all works out. It would be better for everybody. Certainly would be better for north kor for north korea, but it would be better for everybody. Abe said after trying for 20 years, there is no point for the sake of dialogue with north korea. President trump also asked what he feels japan should do if north korea decides to launch more missiles over the region. I will say if i could take a piece of the prime minsters answer. He will shoot them. He will easily shoot them out of the sky. The prime minster of japan is going to be purchasing massive amounts of military equipment, as he should. As the president arrived in tokyo, first order of business was rallying the troops stationed at owe cotoe air base. We dominate the sky. We dominate the sea. We dominate the land and space. Not merely because we have the budget. We do. Together with our allies, americas warriors are prepared to defend our nation, using the full range of our unmatched capabilities. No one, no dictator, no regime, and no nation, should under estimate ever american resolve. Reporter good morning. Im hearing helicopters overhead. Heading to the palace for a banquet. Tried to stress the relationship he has with prime Minster Shinzo abe as one of the slentrengths going into this long trip. One of the longest for a u. S. President in a quarter century. Part of what well see over the next couple of days will be a focus on north korea. That played out in their conversation to reporters today where they talked about the end of strategic patience as a policy. Wanting to put more pressure on north korea. Japan enacting some new sanctions also its intention to buy additional military u. S. Equipment as a show of force towards japan. The prime minster saying that military options remain on the table. Prumpb did not repepresident tr did not repeat his more heated rhetoric. He did not say that here. Instead focusing on the need for north korea to change what its doing. Theres been talk over here about the threat of a possible arms race in that region considering the threat from north korea. That will be a conversation with japan. Seoul and the leaders of those two countries who have an interest with the United States to try to get china to do more with respect to north korea. Especially with Ballistic Missile testing and nuclear program. Certainly there is a concern about a ramping up and at the same time, the u. S. View is that there is deterrence capacity with military buildup and thats something certainly President Trump wants to see from japan. Were going to check back in at the bottom of the hour. Still ahead, much more on the deadly Church Shooting in Sutherland Springs texas. Going to go live once again to the First Baptist church. 26 People Killed when a gunman opened fire there. Well be right back. more people shop online for the holidays than ever before. clapping and the United StatesPostal Service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. because we know, even the smallest things are sometimes the biggest. 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We have heard her grandson is in stable condition after going through surgery and having five gunshot wounds. Her granddaughter, sadly has passed. Officials say the gunman, 26yearold Devin Patrick kelly opened fire outside of the church around 11 20 a. M. Local time yesterday morning before continuing his shooting spree inside of the building. They say a local resident confronted kelly, grabbing a rifle and started firing at the suspect. Causing the gunman to drop his weapon and flee the scene in the vehicle. Officers pursued him. Kelly ran his car off the road and crashed. He was found dead inside the car. Covering the very latest all morning. Keep it here. Well be right back. Me push hih Commission Investment products, Fisher Investments avoids them. Some advisers have hidden and layered fees. Fisher investments never does. 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You cant find anyone here who doesnt know someone who was involved. Thats how small the community is. Many say they leave their doors unlocked at night. This is not the kind of place where anything like this would happen. Of course we hear that said over and over again in so many of these Mass Shootings. This investigation is being aided by federal agents on the ground as well at this point. As far as that motive is concerned, we do know there was no terror link here. Federal agents have made that very clear as they continue to look for answers. Ayman, when we interviewed a woman yesterday, she said we were going to have to sleep with shotguns next to us tonight because this is a community that is very scared and very on edge this evening after this mass shooting in our small town of 4 ourks or so people. 26 of those now dead. What more are you learning about this community in general and how the people are very much still on edge . You know its very antidotal, but some of the people weve been speaking to around this area have told us it is a community where everyone knows everyone. Everybody has somebody. As jay was saying, that is connected sod this church. We heard from one eyewitness that told us her first instinct was to immediately call some of her friends who she knew attended that church because that is the sense you get from everybody here. In fact, we have been profiling and asking a lot of questions about the gunman, what his motivations were, but its equally important as we begin to learn more about the identities of these victims of this because that is really where the heart break is to all the stories. You mentioned some of them ranges from five all the way to 72. Nonetheless, it is a community that is now grief stricken as a result of it. Another sign this community is so incredibly closeknit, when we were first interviewing people, a lot of the people saying they can only imagine the shooter is from outside of the town because they know everybody. No one in this town would do Something Like this. And that is exactly what happened. This shooter being from a couple of counties away, ill talk to you again in a little bit. Want to turn it now to louis. Lets bring in bill karins for a check on the weather. Northeast looking a little rainy this morning. Good morning. Take a break from major news stories. Get back to them in a second. We are watching showers and storms roll in through the ohio valley. Yesterday, this area of storms and cold front produced tornados. Eight reported tornados. Indiana and ohio were hit the hardest. Selena ohio, we had a lot of damage that was done. Thats where the injuries were reported. See one of the High School Fields there. Business district got hit. And there was a Dollar General store destroyed there also. No lives no one perished, but eight injuries in the storms. Those storms were going to track them this morning through the northeast. Minor airport delay go through about one or two hours of delay. Worst of it. Timing of it. 7 00 a. M. Pittsburgh in and out of showers. Big cities it looks like were still dry on i95 through noon. By the time we get to 34 00 p. M. Cross through. New york city done by six. Boston raining on top of you. Rainfall totals are light. Minor delays in the northeast. Thats one of the bigger weather stories of the week. Looks like a quiet, tranquil weather week. Live once more to the Sutherland Springs texas. More than two dozen people, including children who lost their lives when a gunman opened fire. Very latest coming up next. To. Lower premiums . Extra benefits . Its open enrollment. Time to open the laptop. And compare Medicare Health plans. Why . Because plans change, so can your health needs. 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