The widow of the Sutherland Springs gunman said on the witness stand that the 2017 mass shooting was punishment for her trying to leave him.
A memorial for church shooting victims is seen in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Nov. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
SAN ANTONIO (CN) After Devin Kelley shot nearly four dozen people at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on Nov. 5, 2017, he called his parents and wife, Danielle Smith, who listened together on speakerphone.
“He blamed me and said it was my fault, and he shot himself,” Smith testified Wednesday morning in San Antonio federal court. “And that’s when I hung up the phone.”
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A young female minor walks over others as they lie inside a pod for females at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by the US Customs and Border Protection, (CBP), in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. - The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills / POOL / AFP)
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Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said he’s not sure what Congress can do in the immediate future.
“I don’t know you need legislation. I think what we need is to make sure we get the people and the technology down there to stop it,” he said in an interview with The Hill over the weekend. “We also need to work with the other countries to make sure that they’re not sending folks up.
“That’s how I would approach it.”
Dealing with the crisis “down there” is the responsibility “of the executive branch,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), according to the news outlet. “If they feel they need additional resources, obviously, we’re here to help.”
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