That leaves out something even bigger. While he was being pursued, the gunman called his father, told him he’d been shot, and said he didn’t think he was going to make it.
‘Kelley called his father while he was being chased and told him he had been shot and didnt think he was going to make it, officials said at Mondays press conference.”
https://www.ksat.com/news/shooting-sutherland-springs-church-gunfire-mass-shooting-airlife
It is in the story, but not in the excerpt.