Federal authorities are responding to a shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a small community southeast of San Antonio.
In a press conference Sunday night, an official from the Texas Department of Public Safety described the scene: Around 11:20 am, the suspect, dressed in black, approached the church and began firing an assault rifle. He then entered the church and continued firing.
Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed that at least 26 people were killed. A Texas Department of Public Safety official said the ages of the victims ranged from 5 to 72 years old. The AP reports that the pastor's 14-year-old daughter is among the dead.
The Department of Public Safety confirmed to NPR that at least 20 others were wounded. A DPS official said in the press conference that the gunman was confronted by an armed civilian outside of the church.
The shooter, who was found dead in neighboring Guadalupe County, has been identified as Devin Kelley, 26, a former Air Force member.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @03:07PM
The EU was for quite some time mostly homogenous. I used to shudder at that 'homogeneity' which I thought was mostly lazy logic for racists since it mostly just relied on circular logic that assumed itself. However, the rapid and widespread migration within the EU has actually created a solid experiment. And the reality is that as countries like the UK have become more 'diverse', their crime rates have skyrocketed. Through the end of 2015 [telegraph.co.uk] in England/Wales sexual offenses were up 36%, violent crime up 27%, homicide up 14%, etc, etc.. Sweden saw [www.bra.se] overall crime victimization increase 19.5% with sexual offenses skyrocketing up 70% in a single year. The increases in crime seem to be bidirectionally linked to increases in 'diversity.' In other words countries less 'diversity' mapped to less crime as more diversity also mapped to higher crime.
It's still quite evident that most of anywhere in the EU is safer than most of anywhere in the US, at least in aggregates. But on the other hand that's setting the bar quite low. America, again as an aggregate, is literally the most unsafe place in the developed world. It's like comparing your economic status to the guy under the bridge. By the time that's not an entirely ridiculous comparison, you're long since in some serious trouble.