Sutherland Springs church shooting

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On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others, including an unborn child, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, United States. Kelley was subsequently shot and wounded, and drove away from the church. While being chased, Kelley killed himself with a gunshot to the head. The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history and the deadliest at an American place of worship, surpassing the Charleston church shooting of 2015 and the Waddell Buddhist temple shooting of 1991. 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...

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