Sutherland Springs church shooting

Sutherland Springs church shooting
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First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs
LocationFirst Baptist Church
216 4th Street
Sutherland Springs, Texas, U.S.
Coordinates29°16′24″N 98°03′23″W / 29.2732°N 98.0564°W / 29.2732; -98.0564
DateNovember 5, 2017 (2017-11-05)
c. 11:20 – c. 11:31 a.m.[1] CST (UTC-06:00)
Attack type
Mass shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide
Weapon

Perpetrator:

Defender:

Deaths27 (including the perpetrator and an unborn child)
Injured22
PerpetratorDevin Patrick Kelley
Defenders
  • Stephen Willeford (armed defender)
  • Johnnie Langendorff (pursuer)
MotiveDomestic dispute

On November 5, 2017, Devin Kelley shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Kelley was shot and wounded by a local resident, then killed himself following 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]

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.

  1. ^ Medina, Steve Spriester, Mariah (February 6, 2018). "700 rounds in 11 minutes: Sutherland Springs survivor says he's amazed he's alive". KSAT.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Ahmed, Saeed (November 6, 2017). "2 of the 5 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history happened in the last 35 days". CNN. Archived from the original on November 6, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Weill, Kelly (November 5, 2017). "Deadliest Church Shooting in American History Kills at Least 26". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on November 6, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.

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