Man Walks Into Baptist Texas Church in Texas, Kills 26 Worshipers

At least 26 people have been killed and many more injured after a man walked into a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday and opened fire on worshipers.

The number of dead at the First Baptist church in the small town 30 miles south-east of San Antonio made the killing the worst mass shooting in modern Texas history and one of the worst gun rampages in recent years. The lone shooter was found dead after he was chased by locals and police across county lines.

“There are so many families who have lost family members, and it occurred in a church, in a place of worship,” the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, in a Sunday evening press conference. “That’s where these people were mown down. We mourn their loss.”

Twenty-three worshipers died inside the church, two outside and one after being taken to hospital. Many more injured were still being treated. The ages of the dead ranged from five to 72.

Freeman Martin of the Texas department of public safety gave a brief timeline of events. At about 11.20am, he said, the suspect, described as a white male in his early 20s, was seen at a gas station over the road from the church.

He was dressed all in black in tactical-style clothes including a ballistic vest. He crossed the road and as he approached the church he began shooting, carrying on the firing as he entered the place of worship itself.

After the carnage, as he was leaving the church, he was engaged by a local resident carrying a rifle. The shooter dropped his own weapon, a Ruger assault rifle, and fled.

He was pursued by police and just as he reached Guadalupe County his vehicle veered off the road. He was found in the car dead, it is not known whether by his own hand or having been shot by a local resident.

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