Texas Church Shooting Leaves at Least 26 Dead, Officials Say<br />A shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killed more than 20 people on Sunday.<br />— A gunman wearing all black and a ballistic vest opened fire with a rifle outside a small Baptist church in rural Texas<br />and continued firing inside the building on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and turning a tiny town east of San Antonio into the scene of the country’s most recent mass horror.<br />Greg Abbott of Texas confirmed the death toll, which has steadily increased throughout<br />the day after the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs.<br />“He went there, he walked in, started shooting people and then took off” to Guadalupe County, which is northeast of Sutherland Springs, he said.<br />Reporters poured into Sutherland Springs throughout the day as the tragedy transformed<br />the once-obscure Texas farming community into the scene of the latest mass killing.<br />In a phone interview on Sunday afternoon, he described Sutherland Springs as “a one-blinking-light town.”<br />“There is a gas station and a post office,” he said.<br />May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
