Texas Church Shooting Leaves at Least 26 Dead, Officials Say
A shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killed more than 20 people on Sunday.
— A gunman wearing all black and a ballistic vest opened fire with a rifle outside a small Baptist church in rural Texas
and continued firing inside the building on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and turning a tiny town east of San Antonio into the scene of the country’s most recent mass horror.
Greg Abbott of Texas confirmed the death toll, which has steadily increased throughout
the day after the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs.
“He went there, he walked in, started shooting people and then took off” to Guadalupe County, which is northeast of Sutherland Springs, he said.
Reporters poured into Sutherland Springs throughout the day as the tragedy transformed
the once-obscure Texas farming community into the scene of the latest mass killing.
In a phone interview on Sunday afternoon, he described Sutherland Springs as “a one-blinking-light town.”
“There is a gas station and a post office,” he said.
May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas.