Pieces of the puzzle to note:
- He was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force in 2014 for abusing his wife and child.
- His mother-in-law has a P.O. Box address in Sutherland Springs.
I’m betting there was another recent incident of domestic abuse while living in New Braunfels. Logically, this would cause the wife to take their child(ren) and flee to her mother’s home in Sutherland. That seems to be the connection. Thinking we will hear that his family and mother-in-law are among the dead/injured at that church.
Maybe.
But on FB he was asked why he shaved his beard and he said it was a long story. IOW, there’s a reason other than that he was just tired of his beard.
I wonder when and why the photos were taken, of him with the beard and of him without it. And when each was taken.
There could be a Muslim angle. The large number of Arab-sounding names that liked the church’s FB page seems really odd. I wonder how many Arabs there are in that small town. If not many, then how and when did that church’s FB page come to the attention of these Arab-sounding folks?
My father-in-law was chaplain of a maximum-security prison in TX. He says the mentality of criminals lines pretty squarely with the mentality of Islam, so those who are inclined to violence and/or making excuses are vulnerable to the proselytizing of Muslims.
Hard to say what was going on with him. Could be several things. I guess we’ll see.
I’ll bet he was also on some kind of mind altering drugs since they say he was depressed lately.