Crews have started to tear down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017.
He fired in front of the church, then moved to the right side of the building and kept shooting. The suspect entered the church and continued shooting. A local resident confronted the gunman as he left the church.A judge cleared the way last month for First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs to tear down the sanctuary where the attack took place.The church until now had kept the sanctuary as a memorial.
Authorities put the number of dead in the Nov. 5, 2017, shooting at 26 people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby.Earlier this summer, a Texas judge granted a temporary restraining order sought by some families. But another judge later denied a request to extend that order, setting in motion the demolition. In court filings, attorneys for the church called the structure a “constant and very painful reminder.
The man who opened fire in the church, Devin Patrick Kelley, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was chased by bystanders and crashed his car. Investigators have said the shooting appeared to stem from a domestic dispute involving Kelley and his mother-in-law, who sometimes attended services at the church but was not present on the day of the shooting.died in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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