Texas church shooting update: 'There was a domestic situation going on within this family,' law enforcement official says. Devin Kelley's mother-in-law had received threatening text messages and there was a "Domestic situation going on," Freeman Martin of the Texas Department of Public Safety said at a Monday news conference. Martin said the shooting that killed 26 people was not racially motivated and added that the investigation remains ongoing. The FBI said they do not have a domestic terrorism investigation open. Fred Milanowski, the special agent in charge of the ATF's Houston field division, said three guns were recovered as part of the investigation and that the ATF was still looking at paperwork on the firearms. Ref. USAToday.
Texas shooter allowed to buy weapons after Air Force failed to flag him. The Air Force failed to flag Devin Kelley as banned from buying the weapons he used to kill 26 people and wound 20 more worshipers at a South Texas church on Sunday, government officials and the Air Force's former top prosecutor told USA TODAY on Monday. The Air Force failed to enter the conviction in the National Crime Information Center database, which would have helped to keep Kelley from buying a gun. Ref. USAToday.
There were around 14 children that died for no reason other than utter craziness and I say that in all the sense of the meaning of being crazy. Our worst crimes are the most senseless and like someone said earlier its getting more commonplace and that should be worrying for everyone.
Sounds like this was all possibly avoidable if the air force had released the information they had on the suspects criminal history of violence. It may have not prevented this at all as he could have found a different way to cause all this destruction with some other type of weapon. It is hard to say at this point.
Talk about hate for your mother-in-law. If that was really the reason then his head really needed checking.
FBI has Devin Kelley's iPhone. But it can't unlock it, obscuring clues to Texas shooter. The FBI has Devin Kelley’s iPhone and a search warrant allowing access but so far the agency has been been unable to unlock the phone. Source 8n.