SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - The shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs that left 26 dead and more than 20 wounded Sunday morning was related to a “domestic situation,” officials said at a press conference Monday. 
 
 Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, of New Braunfels, has been identified as the shooter. Officials said he and his mother-in-law had a tumultuous relationship and said Kelley sent her a series of threatening text messages in days prior to the shooting. Kelley’s in-laws were members of the church but were not there at the time of the shooting. 
 
 Officials said the mass shooting was not racially or religiously motivated. 
 
 Who was Devin Patrick Kelley? Here's what we know about him 
 
 The church is located in the 500 block of 4th Street in the small, south Texas town about 40 miles east of San Antonio. 
 
 Here's everything we know about the Sutherland Springs church shooting 
 
 Kelley was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the shooting. His body was recovered about 10 miles away in Guadalupe County from inside the vehicle that he used to flee the scene of the shooting. 
 
 Officials said Kelley walked into the church around 11:20 a.m. Sunday and began shooting. He was armed with a Ruger AR 556 assault rifle, and dressed in black tactical gear and was wearing a ballistic vest. Officials later recovered two handguns from his vehicle, a Glock 9mm and a Ruger .22 pistol. Two of the guns were bought from an Academy Sports & Outdoors in San Antonio. Officials said he did not have a license to carry guns. 
 
 Officials said Monday evening that they've collected hundreds of shell casings and 15 magazines that hold 30 rounds each. 
 
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 Among the 26 dead inside the church, ages range from just 18 months old to 77 years old. None of their names have been released officially, however First Baptist Church Pastor Frank Pomeroy said his 14-year-old daughter Annabelle Renee Pomeroy is among the deceased. Nick Uhlig told The Associated Press that his cousin Crystal Holcombe and her in-laws Karla and Bryan Holcombe died in Sunday’s attack. 
 
 The victims are being autopsied at the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office. Officials said their names will be released when their next of kin has been notified. 
 
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 Officials said of the 20 people inside the church who were wounded in the shooting, six are in stable condition, or have been released from the hospital, four are in serious condition and 10 are in critical condition. They are all being treated at San Antonio-area hospitals, including Brooke Army Medical Center and University Hospital. 
 
 A commanding general at BAMC says they received eight patients from the scene — six adults and two minors — all with “critical, significant, life-changing injuries.” He said seven of the patients arrived via ambulance and one was flown in a medical helicopter. 
 
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 Of the nine patients brought to University Hospital’s Level I trauma center, three children and three adults remain, a hospital spokesman said Monday morning. Their conditions range from serious to critical. Two adults were treated and released. One pediatric patient died. 
 
 Officials said after opening fire inside the church, Kelley was confronted by someone who lived near the church and gunfire was exchanged. Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Freeman Martin said Kelley was shot in his leg and torso by that person prior to getting into his vehicle to flee. 
 
 A look inside Sutherland Springs' First Baptist Church before mass shooting 
 
 The neighbor and another man from the Sutherland Springs community pursued Kelley for nearly a dozen miles before Kelley’s vehicle crashed. Kelley called his father while he was being chased and told him he had been shot and “didn’t think he was going to make it,” officials said at Monday’s press conference. 
 
 Who is Devin Patrick Kelley? 
 
 Kelley was previously a U.S. Air Force member who served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge in 2014. An Air Force spokesperson said he was court-martialed in 2012 for two counts of Article 128 UCMJ, Assault on his spouse and assault on their child. He received a bad conduct discharge, confinement for twelve months and a reduction to the grade of E-1. Officials said he had previously been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty in east-central Colorado. 
 
 Court records in El Paso County indicate Devin Patrick Kelley was cited on Aug. 1, 2014, when he lived in a mobile home park near Colorado Springs. He was given a deferred probationary sentence and was ordered to pay $368 in restitution. The charge was dismissed in March 2016 after Kelley completed his sentence. 
 
 The Denver Post reports court records indicate someone was granted a protection order against Kelley on Jan. 15, 2015, also in El Paso County. 
 
 A statement issued by Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels said Kelley worked for the resort as an unarmed, night security guard for five and a half weeks during the summer before his employment was terminated. The statement indicated that all security guards must pass a criminal background check through the Texas Department of Public Safety. 
 
 Sutherland Springs shooter was fired from seasonal security guard job at Schlitterbahn 
 
 Claudia Varjabedian is a manager at the Summit Vacation Resort in New Braunfels. She told The Associated Press on Monday that Devin Patrick Kelley had been working there the past month and a half. 
 
 She says Kelley "seemed like a nice guy" and didn't give her any problems. She said he worked unarmed on his shift as the day security guard. 
 
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 Families in tears wait to see if their family and friends are safe. Praying for the safety of all those involved. pic.twitter.com/yjzK7lZJ1S — Max Massey (@MaxMasseyTV) November 5, 2017 
 
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 Annabelle “was one very beautiful, special child,” her father, pastor Frank Pomeroy, said. 
 
 The girl, whose full name is Annabelle Renee Pomeroy, was her father's youngest daughter and died along with other church members, according to Frank Pomeroy, who spoke to ABC News. 
 
 The pastor said he was in Oklahoma this morning when the shooter opened fire in his church, First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. 
 
 He was driving back Sunday afternoon from Oklahoma to Sutherland Springs, a small community about 40 miles southeast of San Antonio. 
 
 All of those killed are close friends of his, Frank Pomeroy said. 
 
 The rest of the victims have not been identified, but she will not be the youngest victim. Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Freeman Martin said this afternoon that the victims ranged from 5 years old to 72 years old. 
 
 A law enforcement official reports that 26 people are dead and about 20 others were injured. 
 
 The fatality count makes it one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. ||||| (CNN) At least 26 people were killed in Sunday's church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a press conference. 
 
 About 20 others were wounded, said Freeman Martin, a regional director with the Texas Department of Public Safety, with victims ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old. 
 
 Among the dead is the 14-year-old daughter of the First Baptist Church's pastor, Frank Pomeroy, according to his wife, Sherri Pomeroy, the girl's mother. The couple were traveling out of state when the shooting occurred. 
 
 Authorities have not said what may have motivated the suspected shooter, who was later found dead in his vehicle. 
 
 The shooting has devastated the small Texas town east of San Antonio, described as a place where "everybody knows everybody." 
 
 Here are the latest developments: 
 
 The suspected shooter has been identified as 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, according to two law enforcement sources who have been briefed on the investigation. 
 
 In April 2016, Kelley purchased the Ruger AR-556 rifle he used in the shooting from an Academy Sports & Outdoors store in San Antonio, Texas, a law enforcement official said. He indicated he didn't have a disqualifying criminal history when he filled out the background check paperwork at the store, the official said. Kelley listed a Colorado Springs, Colorado, address when he bought the gun. 
 
 Kelley was a member of the US Air Force and served at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge, according to Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek. 
 
 Kelley was court-martialed in 2012 for assault on his spouse and assault on their child, according to Stefanek. Kelley served a year in prison and received a bad conduct discharge in 2014, the spokeswoman said. His rank was also reduced, she said. 
 
 Speaking from Japan, President Donald Trump condemned the shooting as an "act of evil" and called it "horrific." 
 
 "We don't know names of any of the victims at this time," said Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt in a press conference Sunday evening. As victims are identified, next of kin will be notified, he said. 
 
 The attack 
 
 Without naming Kelley, Martin described the shooter in Sunday's press conference as a young white male who was dressed in all-black "tactical-type gear" and wearing a ballistic vest. 
 
 Martin said the suspect was seen in a Valero gas station across the street from the church in Sutherland Springs at about 11:20 a.m. local time on Sunday morning. 
 
 The suspect left the gas station, crossed the street, exited his vehicle and began firing before he entered the church, Martin said. 
 
 As the suspected shooter left the church, a local resident used their own rifle to engage him, Martin said. The shooter then fled the church, while the citizen pursued him. 
 
 After a brief chase, law enforcement later found the suspect dead of a gunshot wound inside his vehicle. A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said multiple weapons were found in Kelley's car. Authorities said they don't know if the wound was self-inflicted or the result of the resident who fired on the suspect, Martin said. 
 
 The shooter was killed after a brief chase north into neighboring Guadalupe County, Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Robert Murphy said earlier on Sunday. 
 
 The community 
 
 Sutherland Springs is in Wilson County, about 30 miles east of San Antonio. 
 
 "My heart is broken," Wilson County Commissioner Albert Gamez Jr. told CNN. "We never think where it can happen, and it does happen. It doesn't matter where you're at. In a small community, real quiet and everything, and look at this." 
 
 Dana Fletcher, who owns a business down the road from the church, told CNN's Fredricka Whitfield that Sutherland Springs is a "very small" but "very tight-knit community." 
 
 "There's two gas stations, the church, a community center, post office, a Dollar General, a tire shop," she said. "That's about it." 
 
 The FBI was on the scene of the shooting, according to Michelle Lee, spokeswoman for the FBI's San Antonio field office. Agents from the San Antonio field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also headed to the scene, a law enforcement source said. 
 
 After the shooting, about 100 family members of victims gathered in a community center next to the church, waiting for news of their loved ones, 26-year-old David Flores told CNN. Local law enforcement, the FBI and the Red Cross were also at the community center. 
 
 "My dad saw the gunman run into the church building and then he heard shots and saw people running," Flores told CNN. "People covered in blood and screaming. It was pandemonium everywhere." 
 
 "Looking around, it's very sorrowful and the pastors from all the local churches right now are just trying to console everybody," said Flores when asked to describe the scene inside the community center. 
 
 "There were several children injured," he said. "I know three, personally, who are in critical condition." 
 
 The victims 
 
 The Connally Memorial Medical Center in nearby Floresville, Texas, received 8 patients with gunshot wounds from the Sutherland Springs church shooting, a statement from the hospital said. Four of those patients were transferred to University Hospital in San Antonio to receive a higher level of care. 
 
 One of those patients was in critical condition and needed to be air-lifted. 
 
 Three patients were treated at Connally Memorial Medical Center and have been released, the statement said. One patient is in stable condition there. 
 
 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Investigators work at the scene of a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, November 5. A man opened fire inside the small community church, killing at least 26 people. Hide Caption 1 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting People comfort each other at a community center near the scene of the deadly shooting. Hide Caption 2 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Investigators work at the scene. Victims range in age from 17 months to 77 years old. 
 
 Hide Caption 3 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Enrique and Gabby Garcia watch investigators at the scene. Hide Caption 4 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Law enforcement officials gather near the First Baptist Church. The shooter was killed after a brief chase north into neighboring Guadalupe County, according Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Robert Murphy. Hide Caption 5 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting A man wipes his eyes after the shooting. Hide Caption 6 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Flags are lowered to half staff at First Baptist Church following the shooting. Hide Caption 7 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Law enforcement officials and forensic experts gather at the scene. Hide Caption 8 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Emergency personnel seal off the scene of the mass shooting. Hide Caption 9 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Law enforcement officers man a barricade near the church. Hide Caption 10 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Carrie Matula embraces a woman after the shooting. Matula said she heard the shooting from the gas station where she works across the street. Hide Caption 11 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting Law enforcement officials work the shooting scene. Hide Caption 12 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting A woman prays with a man after the shooting. Hide Caption 13 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting The FBI responded to the scene of the shooting, according to Michelle Lee, spokeswoman for the FBI's San Antonio field office. Hide Caption 14 of 15 Photos: Sutherland Springs church shooting "My heart is broken," said Wilson County Commissioner Albert Gamez Jr. "We never think where it can happen, and it does happen. It doesn't matter where you're at. In a small community, real quiet and everything, and look at this, what can happen." Hide Caption 15 of 15 
 
 At least 8 patients were being treated Sunday afternoon at University Hospital in San Antonio, according to spokeswoman Leni Kirkman, adding that the hospital could receive more patients. 
 
 A spokesman for Brooke Army Medical Center also confirmed to CNN that the facility received patients from the shooting, but the spokesman didn't have a specific number. 
 
 The church 
 
 According to the church's website, congregants meet around 9:15 a.m. on Sundays for breakfast before Sunday school and the morning church service at 11 a.m. The sanctuary where the shooting occurred is small, with wooden pews and red carpeting. 
 
 Last Sunday, a small praise team led the congregation in a rendition of "Happiness is the Lord," according to a video of the service posted on the church's Facebook page. 
 
 Later in the service, Pastor Pomeroy read scripture from Proverbs: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." 
 
 "Lean on the Lord ... leaning into God is the way we should go," he said, "because God's got it figured out whether we do or not." 
 
 Photos on the church's page show happy moments in the lives of parishioners: children playing in an inflatable castle and adults and children dressed in costumes during last week's Fall Festival, held on Halloween. 
 
 Mourners gathered at a vigil Sunday night at the Sutherland Springs post office. 
 
 "We have never had this happen before," said Debra Morales, a volunteer coordinating relief efforts for victims' family members. "It's all just very upsetting." 
 
 The reaction 
 
 "May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas," tweeted President Donald Trump, who is in Japan on his first trip to Asia as president. 
 
 May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2017 
 
 Trump was briefed on the shooting, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, and has spoken with Abbott, the Texas governor. 
 
 "In tragic times Americans always pull together," Trump said during a news conference in Japan. "We are always strongest when we are unified." 
 
 US Senator John Cornyn of Texas called the news "truly heartbreaking" in a tweet Sunday . "Please say a prayer for First Baptist congregation, first responders & the community there," he said. 
 
 "While the details of this horrific act are still under investigation, Cecilia and I want to send our sincerest thoughts and prayers to all those who have been affected by this evil act," said Gov. Abbott in a statement Sunday. "I want to thank law enforcement for their response and ask that all Texans pray for the Sutherland Springs community during this time of mourning and loss." ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. 
 
 / Updated By Corky Siemaszko and Alex Johnson 
 
 The gunman accused of the worst mass murder in Texas history was part of an intra-family feud and had "a purpose and a mission" when he unleashed hell with a Ruger assault-type rifle in a small-town Baptist church, investigators said Monday. 
 
 But Devin Patrick Kelley's mother-in-law, who authorities said may have been his potential target, wasn't at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs when he opened fire on Sunday, killing 26 people ages 18 months to 77 — almost half of them children. 
 
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 The woman is talking to investigators who are trying to come up with a motive for the deadliest massacre ever at a U.S. house of worship — and the military is trying to determine how it failed to report that the gunman had been convicted of assault, which should have barred him from buying guns. 
 
 "I think he came here with a purpose and a mission," Freeman Martin, regional commander of the state Department of Public Safety, said at a news conference Monday evening. 
 
 Martin disclosed that at least 15 empty 30-round ammunition magazines were found at the church, along with "hundreds" of shell casings" — more than he would ever need, Freeman said, to "take care of the mother-in-law." 
 
 "There was conflict between the families, but I can't say if it was revenge or not," Martin said. He did, however, rule out racial or religious motivations. 
 
 Kelley's mother-in-law from his most recent marriage, in 2014, lives in Sutherland Springs and had received threatening texts from Kelley, said authorities who wouldn't identify the woman or elaborate on the messages. 
 
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 Twenty-three people were killed inside the sanctuary, Martin said, adding that authorities have "a video recording from inside the church." Two more people were killed outside the building, and one person died later at a hospital. 
 
 Devin Kelley in an undated driver's license photo. Texas Department of Public Safety 
 
 Earlier Monday, Martin warned that the death toll "could rise" because half of the 20 wounded victims were in critical condition. 
 
 Kelley was found dead after the massacre in his vehicle — apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Martin said. A Glock and a Ruger handgun were found inside the Ford Expedition he had been driving, and a Ruger AR-556 rifle was recovered at the church, Martin said. 
 
 Kelley, who was 26 and lived in nearby New Braunfels, had been wounded earlier when he got into a gunfight outside the church with a man who lived nearby and was armed with at AR-15 assault-type rife, Martin said. 
 
 Martin didn't identify the "hero Texan" who traded shots with Kelley, whose body was found with three gunshot wounds, "two from the citizen, one apparently self-inflicted." 
 
 He said that as Kelley raced away from the crime scene, "the suspect did notify his father that he had been shot and that he was not going to make it." 
 
 Meanwhile, the Air Force acknowledged Monday that an officer failed to enter Kelley's domestic violence court-martial into a national database that would have barred him from buying weapons. Top Air Force brass ordered a "complete review of the Kelley case" by the service's inspector general, said Ann Stefanek, a spokeswoman for the service. 
 
 Kelley was court-martialed in 2012 on two charges of assaulting his spouse and their child. He was confined for a year and then discharged for bad conduct in 2014. 
 
 Don Christensen, a retired Air Force colonel who supervised prosecutors when Kelley was brought before a court martial, told NBC News he was convicted of fracturing the skull of his infant stepson. 
 
 "I don't know how old the child was, but he was a baby," Christensen said. 
 
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 Kelley was also convicted of assaulting his wife, Tessa, in the same incident in 2012, he added. The incident happened while Kelley was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. 
 
 Under federal law, anybody with a domestic violence conviction is barred from buying a gun — but Martin said that because the Air Force failed to record the convictions, a federal records check came up clean. 
 
 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said separately that Kelley had applied for a Texas right-to-carry permit and had been turned down. 
 
 "It was after that that he was able to buy this gun," Abbott said. "So there's ongoing information that needs to be gathered." 
 
 Sutherland Springs is a tight-knit town of about 400 people about 40 miles southeast of San Antonio. 
 
 Dressed in black tactical gear, Kelley opened fire just after 11 a.m. Sunday outside the church and then barged inside and began spraying the sanctuary with bullets. 
 
 Terrie Smith told MSNBC she watched the deadly drama unfold from a store across the street. 
 
 "He was shooting towards the church, and he ran around the church," Smith said, adding that while this was going on, she and the customers took shelter inside the store. 
 
 "Then there was silence," she said. "We didn't hear any more shots for a couple of seconds. And then we heard a massive load of shots." 
 
 One of the victims came running into the store and said "his family's in there," Smith said, choking up with tears. 
 
 Inside the church, Kelley's rampage was cut short when an unidentified good Samaritan wrenched the rifle out of his hands. 
 
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 Kelley then fled the church, where he was confronted by an armed man who lives nearby, and a gun battle erupted. 
 
 After Kelley fled, another man police are calling a hero named Johnnie Langendorff pulled up in his truck and told the neighbor to hop in, and together they began chasing Kelley. When they caught up to Kelley's vehicle about 11 miles north of the church, it was in a ditch and the gunman had already shot himself, Martin said. 
 
 While the latest mass killing renewed calls by Democrats for tighter gun control, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was quick to praise the man who man who exchanged shots with Kelley. 
 
 "The reason that the depraved gunman finally gave up and got in a car and fled, and didn't murder more, is precisely because one individual demonstrated bravery and courage," Cruz said outside the church. "We need to be celebrating that." 
 
 Cruz, however, didn't address how Kelley — with his criminal background — was able to purchase the weapons he used. 
 
 Two ex-girlfriends told NBC News that Kelley had a short fuse and his behavior was disturbing and even violent after they broke up with him. 
 
 An FBI agent works in front of the First Baptist Church Monday. Nick Wagner / AP 
 
 "That was another thing about him — he was very sick in the head," former flame Katy Landry told NBC News in a Facebook message. "He would tell me very sick strange things." 
 
 CORRECTION (Nov. 7, 11:50 a.m.): An earlier version of this article misstated the charge that Devin Patrick Kelley was convicted of while in the Air Force. The charge was assault, not sexual assault.
– There are 26 people confirmed dead in America's latest horrific mass shooting—including the 14-year-old daughter of Frank Pomeroy, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. Pomeroy tells ABC that Annabelle, his youngest daughter, was a "very beautiful, special child." Pomeroy says he was in Oklahoma Sunday in a rare absence from the church. He says all the people killed were good friends. At least three other children were killed in the attack and others are among the wounded. Sutherland Springs resident Nick Uhlig tells the Houston Chronicle that his cousin, Crystal Holcombe, was eight months pregnant and died along with three of her five children. The two others were badly injured. Uhliq says the church provides community services, including free meals, for the tiny town, where the shooting is believed to have killed or injured close to 10% of the population. "Everybody can come, it doesn’t matter what religion you are," he says. Local business owner Dana Fletcher tells CNN that the community about 30 miles east of San Antonio is very small and very tight-knit. "There's two gas stations, the church, a community center, post office, a Dollar General, a tire shop," she says. Amanda Mosel tells the San Antonio Express-News that the congregation numbers around 50. She says her 13-year-old goddaughter was among those killed. The gunman, identified as Devin Kelley, was found dead in his vehicle after the mass shooting. His motive is still unclear.