Posted on 12/17/2024 5:09:32 AM PST by daniel1212
Around 11:30 a.m. local time, a man dressed in all black exited a vehicle and started firing a rifle outside First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a Texas community of a few hundred people about 30 miles east of San Antonio, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
The gunman then entered the church, where services were underway, and continued to fire, officials said.
Eventually, as the gunman was leaving the church, a local resident who was armed with a rifle confronted the shooter, said Freeman Martin of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Martin said there was an exchange of gunfire and the killer dropped his gun – a Ruger AR “assault-type rifle” – and sped away in a Ford Explorer. The armed resident, Stephen Willeford, hailed a man who was driving by and they pursued the shooter in a high-speed chase.
The gunman drove north into neighboring Guadalupe County, authorities said. Just across the county line, law enforcement officers found him dead inside his vehicle with gunshot wounds, ...
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President Donald Trump condemned the shooting as an “act of evil” and called it “horrific.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Incld. 8 kids, one being unborn. Yet all lawfully handled before any LE showed up. And safe to say most went to glory. thank God.
Well, it is fitting, and please read [see date] in the headlne i posted.
It is called relevancy. See FR sideabar:
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See above post. And see where I stated [see date] in the headline, and that it is posted in General/Chat, not news.
Thanks, but I received mostly complaints from posters just from posting this, as they fail to do what "see date" says.
glad to hear that! ... looks like the synagogues wised up before the churches ... no real surprise though, right?
“We have both armed LEOs and civilians carrying at every service. Church of 6K members.”
makes my heart sing!
I was in Dallas when this event happened.
But God was taking some to a new address/Heaven via a shooter from Hell.
I saw “[see date]” in the headline. Why didn’t YOU?
I remembered the original story and knew it happened in the past (2017). Why didn’t YOU?
“Dammit”
I’m a little slow on the draw, besides, a headline like that and MANY would miss that reference.
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