The US Air Force veteran who gunned down 26 people in a Texas church fatally shot himself after crashing his vehicle with two local residents in hot pursuit, the local sheriff said Monday.
“At this time, we believe that he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CBS News about Devin Kelly, 26, a disgraced former airman who was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his wife and child.
“There was some gunfire exchanged, I believe, on the roadway also, and then (the shooter’s vehicle) wrecked out,” Tackitt said.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told CBS News that the attack on the church in Sutherland Springs, a community of fewer than 400 people about 40 miles east of San Antonio, did not appear to be a “random act.”
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