Texas Gunman Broke Skull of Infant Stepson in 2012 Assault
New York Times ^ | NOV. 6, 2017 | DAVE PHILIPPS and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
“He assaulted his stepson severely enough that he fractured his skull, and he also assaulted his wife,” said Don Christensen, a retired colonel who was the chief prosecutor for the Air Force.
“He pled to intentionally doing it.”
...He was sentenced in November of that year to 12 months’ confinement and reduction to the lowest possible rank.
After his confinement, he was discharged from the military with a bad conduct discharge.
..." The case marked a long downward slide that included divorce...
After Mr. Kelley was discharged from the Air Force in 2014, he remarried in Texas, to Danielle Lee Shields, in April of that year, according to state records.
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Texas shooter had threatened churchgoing mother-in-law
New York Post ^ | November 6, 2017 | Max Jaeger
The maniac who killed 26 people inside a Texas church Sunday threatened his parishioner mother-in-law, officials revealed Monday.
Devin Patrick Kelley "made threatening text messages to his mother-in-law who went to the church” said Texas Department of Public Safety regional director Freeman Martin.
The woman, who was not named, attends the church but was not there during the massacre Sunday, authorities said. Martin would not say whether the woman's membership with the church motivated Kelley.
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Texas shooter went to church festival days before massacre
By Ruth Brown
Nov 7, 2017
The Texas church shooter attended a festival at the chapel just days before he opened fire on congregants, according to a report.
Five days before his bloody massacre, Devin Patrick Kelley brought his kids to the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs' fall festival - a Halloween event with games, a bouncy house and a petting zoo, the Houston Chronicle reports.
The troubled Airman was estranged from his wife and had been involved in a feud with his mother-in-law - a member of the congregation - so other church members saw his presence as the event as a positive step.
"They thought, 'Oh this is good. This is progress,'" Tambria Read, a friend of Kelley’s mother-in-law told the paper.
His mother-in-law, Michelle Shields, was particularly pleased to see her son-in-law at the church event with her grandkids, Read told the Chronicle.
Kelley had been sending her threatening texts before the shooting, according to law enforcement officials — but she wasn’t inside when he attacked.
http://nypost.com/2017/11/07/texas-shooter-went-to-church-festival-days-before-massacre/
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“Old school friends described Kelley, who lived in nearby New Braunfels, Texas, as a “creep” who made no secret of his anti-religious views.
Nina Rose Nava, who went to school with Kelley, said: “He was always talking about how people who believe in God were stupid and trying to preach his atheism.’...”--NY Times
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Devin Kelley: Texas shooter killed his wife’s grandma in church massacre
Mythili Sampathkumar
Police have confirmed that Devin Kelley, the gunman who killed 26 and injured 20 in the Texas church mass shooting, also killed his grandmother-in-law in the church.
Lula Woicinski White, a 71-year-old member and volunteer at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was Mr Kelley’s wife’s grandmother.
Mr Kelley’s in-laws and second wife Danielle were also members of the church, but none were present during the day of the shooting according to police. ...”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/devin-kelley-texas-shooting-grandma-wife-victims-kill-latest-news-updates-a8041091.html
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