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Sutherland Springs church shooting: What we know [see date] A gunman killed 26 people and wounded 20 others at a Texas church Sunday morning..the largest mass shooting in state history.
CNN ^ | November 7, 2017 | Jason Hanna and Holly Yan

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.

Related article This man may have prevented the Texas mass shooting from getting any deadlier

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, ...

Related article What we know about suspect Devin Patrick Kelley

Kelley was charged in military court in 2012 on suspicion of assaulting his spouse and their child, Stefanek said. ..Kelley’s court martial conviction was not entered into the federal law enforcement database

President Donald Trump condemned the shooting as an “act of evil” and called it “horrific.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Military/Veterans; Outdoors; Religion
KEYWORDS: 2017; 2ndamendment; ag; badcharacter; badguyguns; banglist; church; devinpatrickkelley; massshooting; murder; society; sutherlandsprings; texas
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excerpts of https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/texas-church-shooting-what-we-know/index.html

Also: CNN - The deadliest shooting in Texas history could have claimed even more lives if it weren’t for two strangers who jumped into action, authorities said. - https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/texas-church-shooting-resident-action/index.html

Movie: Miracle on 4th Street: https://tubitv.com/movies/622220/miracle-on-4th-street;

1 posted on 12/17/2024 5:09:32 AM PST by daniel1212
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To: daniel1212; .45 Long Colt; Apple Pan Dowdy; BDParrish; Big Red Badger; BlueDragon; boatbums; ...

ping


2 posted on 12/17/2024 5:13:10 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212

I won’t read a CNN article. When a real journalist writes about it, I’ll read it.


3 posted on 12/17/2024 5:15:18 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: daniel1212

So 7% of the town died in one day. Wow.


4 posted on 12/17/2024 5:16:41 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: daniel1212

when are these churches and synagogs finally gonna wise up and ALWAYS have armed parishioners on duty during services and other functions?

they’ve become a favorite target for the insane ...


5 posted on 12/17/2024 5:25:38 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: albie

“When a real journalist writes about it, I’ll read it.”

There are none.


6 posted on 12/17/2024 5:27:10 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: daniel1212

Dammit, PLEASE do NOT post these articles as if they just happened!


7 posted on 12/17/2024 5:29:15 AM PST by Spacetrucker
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To: daniel1212

Why are you posting an article that’s 7 years old?


8 posted on 12/17/2024 5:31:50 AM PST by nanetteclaret (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The last three churches I’ve attended were armed.


9 posted on 12/17/2024 5:34:46 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: daniel1212

Article is from 2017. Why are you posting it?


10 posted on 12/17/2024 5:42:36 AM PST by LouAvul (He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. [2 Sam 23:3])
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To: nanetteclaret

I’d have thought more than you & I had noticed.

Same question.


11 posted on 12/17/2024 5:45:22 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: albie
The Perp

Multiple Articlles Here is you are interested

12 posted on 12/17/2024 5:47:44 AM PST by deport
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To: daniel1212
Kelley was charged in military court in 2012 on suspicion of assaulting his spouse and their child, Stefanek said. ..Kelley’s court martial conviction was not entered into the federal law enforcement database

Not the first time military authorities have FAILED TO COMMUNICATE a "disqualifying event" to civilian authorities.

13 posted on 12/17/2024 5:56:57 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: daniel1212

a Ruger AR “assault-type rifle”

Would the death rate have been less if he had used a Remington Model 8 rifle made in 1906? Yes, 1906! Available through the mail at that time.

https://www.imfdb.org/images/0/04/Remington_Model_8_Extended_Mag.jpg

Remember, between 1962 and 1984 the promise of the democrat gun grabbers was always “We ONLY want to register and ban HANDGUNS! Rifles will not be affected!”
Then in 1984, they saw rifles as a “target of opportunity” and went after them.


14 posted on 12/17/2024 6:24:06 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: catnipman

We have both armed LEOs and civilians carrying at every service. Church of 6K members.


15 posted on 12/17/2024 6:51:18 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: catnipman

All the synagogues I’ve been to in the last 5 years (and several synagogues before) have armed off duty police officers in uniform at the door.

Ya never know when someone will go all spontaneous “allahu akhbar” on you.


16 posted on 12/17/2024 6:56:26 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("Israel will just have to ... kill more Christians” - FR's own "nitzy")
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To: daniel1212

Thanks! Almost forgot about that one.

Clickable version of the links you provided below

excerpts https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/texas-church-shooting-what-we-know/index.html

Also: CNN - The deadliest shooting in Texas history could have claimed even more lives if it weren’t for two strangers who jumped into action, authorities said. -
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/texas-church-shooting-resident-action/index.html

Movie: Miracle on 4th Street: https://tubitv.com/movies/622220/miracle-on-4th-street


17 posted on 12/17/2024 7:11:33 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

CNN brings up a years old story to provide cover for a girl shooting up a Christian school.
What a pack of losers. Why not the tranny who killed six?


18 posted on 12/17/2024 7:31:11 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: daniel1212

So, which psych med is he on? They always are. Maybe someday people will see the connection.


19 posted on 12/17/2024 7:52:41 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: albie
I won’t read a CNN article. When a real journalist writes about it, I’ll read it.

That is absurd. Even a "hostile witness" can provide truthful testimony. But all you need to do is search Sutherland Springs church shooting

One source: https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Sutherland-Springs-documentary-Miracle-on-4th-15972521.php

20 posted on 12/17/2024 8:29:29 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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