Sutherland Springs church shooting
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On November 5, 2017, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a local man, Devin Kelley, shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others. Kelley was shot and wounded by another local resident, then killed himself after a car chase. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history[2] and the deadliest at an American place of worship, surpassing the Charleston church shooting of 2015.[3]
Sutherland Springs church shooting | |
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Location | First Baptist Church 216 4th Street Sutherland Springs, Texas, U.S. |
Coordinates | 29.2732°N 98.0564°W / 29.2732; -98.0564 |
Date | November 5, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-11-05) c. 11:20 – c. 11:31 a.m.[1] CST (UTC-06:00) |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Weapon | |
Deaths | 27 (including the perpetrator and an unborn child) |
Injured | 22 |
Perpetrator | Devin Patrick Kelley |
Defender | Stephen Willeford |
Motive | Domestic dispute |
In 2021, a federal judge ruled that the federal government was negligent and awarded victims and families nearly a quarter-billion dollars. The 26-year-old Kelley should not have been allowed to purchase or possess firearms and ammunition because of a prior domestic violence conviction in a court-martial while in the United States Air Force; however, he was still able to buy the weapons because the Air Force did not report the conviction. In response, Congress passed new legislation that fixed holes in background check reporting procedures.