| Sutherland Springs church shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | First Baptist Church 216 4th Street Sutherland Springs, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 29°16′24″N 98°03′23″W / 29.2732°N 98.0564°W |
| Date | November 5, 2017 c. 11:20 – c. 11:31 a.m.[1] CST (UTC-06:00) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide |
| Weapon |
Perpetrator: Defender: |
| Deaths | 27 (including the perpetrator and an unborn child) |
| Injured | 22 |
| Perpetrator | Devin Patrick Kelley |
| Defenders |
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| Motive | Domestic 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.
- ^ 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) - ^ 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.
- ^ 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.