November 5, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-11-05) c. 11:20 – c. 11:31a.m.[1] CST (UTC-06:00)
Attack type
Mass shooting
Weapon
Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic rifle
Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol
Ruger SR22 semi-automatic pistol
Deaths
27 (including the perpetrator and an unborn child)
Injured
22
Perpetrator
Devin Patrick Kelley
Defender
Stephen Willeford
Motive
Domestic dispute
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]
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.
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