I know this doesn't make logical sense at all but there is a change in the U.S. since Trump became president that is totally driving a segment of our nation crazy. And this is one example of it today.
People who had good upbringings might be okay but everyone else is being driven crazy by Trump in the White House. I have lived long enough to take Trump in Stride. After all, I lived with Nixon as president already and the Viet Nam War already and the assassination of Kennedy and Bobby his brother too. So, I have already seen how crazy this country can get like when students were shot by soldiers at Kent STate university and that Griffith Park Love IN with with Police beating tripping attendees possibly to death even though many of them were soldiers wearing wigs to fit in then on leave in 1969 from Viet Nam.
So, the level of craziness in the U.S. is the same as then. It's just a different kind of fatal craziness now.
26 dead in
shooting at church
in Sutherland
Springs, Texas -- live updates
shooting at church
in Sutherland
Springs, Texas -- live updates
CBS News · 1 hour ago
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Texas church
shooting: at least
26 dead
shooting: at least
26 dead
CNN · 22 mins ago
Texas Church
Shooting Leaves at
Least 26 Dead,
Officials Say
Shooting Leaves at
Least 26 Dead,
Officials Say
New York Times · 2 mins ago
At least 26 people killed in shooting at Texas church
By Dakin Andone, Kaylee Hartung and Darran Simon, CNN
Updated 7:24 PM ET, Sun November 5, 2017
Story highlights
- Victims ranged in age from 5 to 72 years old
- The shooter has been identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, according to law enforcement sources
(CNN)[Breaking news update at 7:18 p.m. ET]
The
shooter who killed at least 26 Texas parishioners has been identified
as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, according to two law enforcement officers
briefed on the situation.
[Previous story, published at 7:15 p.m. ET]
At
least 26 people were killed in Sunday's church shooting in Sutherland
Springs, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a press conference.
Many
others were wounded, said Freeman Martin, a regional director with the
Texas Department of Public Safety, with victims ranging in age from 5 to
72 years old.
Among
the dead is the 14-year-old daughter of the church's pastor, Frank
Pomeroy, according to his wife, Sherri Pomeroy, the girl's mother. The
couple were traveling out of state when the shooting occurred.
The
shooter has been described as a young white male who was dressed in
all-black "tactical-type gear" and wearing a ballistic vest, Martin told
reporters.
As the suspected
shooter left the First Baptist Church, a local resident used a rifle to
engage him, Martin said. The shooter then fled the church.
After
a brief chase, law enforcement later found the suspect dead of a
gunshot wound inside his vehicle. Authorities said they don't know if
the wound was self-inflicted or the result of the resident who fired on
the suspect, Martin said.
Authorities
say many more were injured in attack, which has devastated the small
Texas town, described as a place where "everybody knows everybody."
The
shooter was killed after a brief chase north into neighboring Guadalupe
County, according to Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Robert
Murphy.
The FBI is responding to
the scene of the shooting, according to Michelle Lee, spokeswoman for
the FBI's San Antonio field office.
A
cashier at a gas station across the street from the church told CNN she
heard about 20 shots being fired in quick succession while a church
service was underway around 11:30 a.m. local time.
Sutherland Springs is in Wilson County, about 30 miles east of San Antonio.
Wilson
County Commissioner Albert Gamez Jr. told CNN that multiple people were
killed and numerous people were injured in Sunday's shooting.
"My
heart is broken," Gamez said. "We never think where it can happen, and
it does happen. It doesn't matter where you're at. In a small community,
real quiet and everything, and look at this, what can happen."
A
law enforcement source told CNN that a man walked into the church and
began shooting about 11:30 a.m. local time. Agents from the San Antonio
field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
are en route to the scene, the source said.
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The
shooter was killed after a brief chase north into neighboring Guadalupe
County, according Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Robert
Murphy.
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"My
heart is broken," said Wilson County Commissioner Albert Gamez Jr. "We
never think where it can happen, and it does happen. It doesn't matter
where you're at. In a small community, real quiet and everything, and
look at this, what can happen."
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enforcement officers man a barricade near the First Baptist Church of
Sutherland Springs. At least 20 people were killed in the shooting,
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Carrie
Matula embraces a woman after the shooting at the church. Matula said
she heard the shooting from the gas station where she works across the
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The
shooter was killed after a brief chase north into neighboring Guadalupe
County, according Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Robert
Murphy.
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"My
heart is broken," said Wilson County Commissioner Albert Gamez Jr. "We
never think where it can happen, and it does happen. It doesn't matter
where you're at. In a small community, real quiet and everything, and
look at this, what can happen."
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Emergency personnel respond to a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, November 5.
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enforcement officers man a barricade near the First Baptist Church of
Sutherland Springs. At least 20 people were killed in the shooting,
authorities said.
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Carrie
Matula embraces a woman after the shooting at the church. Matula said
she heard the shooting from the gas station where she works across the
street.
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A small community, devastated
About
100 family members of victims have gathered inside the Sutherland
Springs Community Building next to the church, waiting for news of their
loved ones, 26-year-old David Flores told CNN. Local law enforcement,
the FBI and the Red Cross are also at the community center.
"My
dad saw the gunman run into the church building and then he heard shots
and saw people running," Flores told CNN. "People covered in blood and
screaming. It was pandemonium everywhere."
"Looking
around, it's very sorrowful and the pastors from all the local churches
right now are just trying to console everybody," said Flores when asked
to describe the scene inside the community center.
"There were several children injured," he said. "I know three, personally, who are in critical condition."
According
to the church's website, congregants meet around 9:15 a.m. on Sundays
for breakfast before Sunday school and the morning church service at 11
a.m. The sanctuary where the shooting occurred is small, with wooden
pews and red carpeting.
Last
Sunday, a small praise team led the congregation in a rendition of
"Happiness is the Lord," according to a video of the service posted on
the church's Facebook page.
Later
in the service, Pastor Pomeroy read scripture from Proverbs: "Trust in
the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."
"Lean
on the Lord ... leaning into God is the way we should go," he said,
"because God's got it figured out whether we do or not."
Photos
on the church's page show happy moments in the lives of parishioners:
children playing in an inflatable castle and adults and children dressed
in costumes during last week's Fall Festival, held on Halloween.
Sutherland Springs
There
will be a vigil tonight at 7 p.m. at the Sutherland Springs post
office, according to Debra Morales, a volunteer coordinating relief
efforts for victims' family members at the Immediate Family Command
Center.
"We have never had this happen before," Morales said. "It's all just very upsetting."
The
Connally Memorial Medical Center in nearby Floresville, Texas, received
8 patients with gunshot wounds from the Sutherland Springs church
shooting, a statement from the hospital said. Four of those patients
were transferred to University Hospital in San Antonio to receive a
higher level of care.
One of those patients was in critical condition and needed to be air-lifted.
Three
patients were treated at Connally Memorial Medical Center and have been
released, the statement said. One patient is in stable condition there.
At
least 8 patients are being treated at University Hospital in San
Antonio, according to spokeswoman Leni Kirkman, who added the situation
is still active and the hospital may receive more patients.
A
spokesman for Brooke Army Medical Center also confirmed to CNN that the
facility has received patients from the shooting, but the spokesman
didn't have a specific number.
Dana
Fletcher, who owns a business down sthe road from the church, told
CNN's Fredricka Whitfield that Sutherland Springs is a "very small" but
"very tight-knit community."
"There's
two gas stations, the church, a community center, post office, a Dollar
General, a tire shop," she said. "That's about it."
Officials react to the news
"May
God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas," tweeted President
Donald Trump, who is in Japan on his first trip to Asia as president.
Trump has been briefed on
the shooting, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders,
and has spoken with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
US Senator John Cornyn of Texas called the news "truly heartbreaking" in a tweet Sunday. "Please say a prayer for First Baptist congregation, first responders & the community there," he said.
"While
the details of this horrific act are still under investigation, Cecilia
and I want to send our sincerest thoughts and prayers to all those who
have been affected by this evil act," said Gov. Abbott in a statement
Sunday. "I want to thank law enforcement for their response and ask that
all Texans pray for the Sutherland Springs community during this time
of mourning and loss."
Abbott said later on his Twitter page that he was on his way to meet with officials and the families of victims.
CNN's Sheena Jones, Alaa Elassar, Shawn Nottingham and Evan Perez contributed to this report
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