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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, @06:33PM
I didn't either, so I left the community.
Now I live in a very rural area of Canada. There's a (usually loaded) gun in the backseat of nearly every (usually unlocked) pickup or other vehicle. ...and nobody is dropping dead of bullet-related injuries.
People are the problem, sure, but the population density, along with the socioeconomic factors of those people has got to be a huge contributing factor. There are simply too many of us, shoved in too small a space. Even small cities aren't fit to live in.
Doing what I did isn't an option for everyone. It won't be too many more years before it's not an option for anyone. A world like The Caves of Steel [wikipedia.org] is not a world I'm interested in living in.
I don't have an answer to the problem, but I can recognize that it's there.