Sunday, November 5, 2017

Gunman Kills Worshipers In Church

This morning at around 11:30, a gunman walked into a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas and opened fire on the worshipers.  Various reports indicate up to 28 people killed and up to 20 people wounded.  The attacker was killed about five miles away after a chase by police.  His identity has not yet been released.

Read more at My San Antonio, NBC News, Fox News, KSAT and CNN.
(H/T Smokie for placing the NBC News story in a BlogTalkRadio chatroom.)

UPDATE:  The attacker has been identified as Devin Kelley, of New Braunfels, Texas.

UPDATE 2:  In 2014, Kelley was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force, as reported by CBS News.  This would have disqualified him, according to 18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(6), from having a gun sold to him or otherwise transferred to him.

UPDATE 3:  According to AOL, Kelley sent "threatening text messages" to his in-laws.  His mother-in-law attended the church in which he attacked the congregation.  During his time in the Air Force, he was convicted of assaulting his wife and child, and eventually was given a "bad conduct" discharge, which might still meet the "under dishonorable conditions" recitation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(6) and (g)(6).  Since assaulting his family members would be acts of domestic violence, Kelley would be disqualified from legally owning a gun under § 922(d)(9) and (g)(9) of the same law.  See the link in the second update.

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