Authorities say they believe the gunman behind the weekend shooting in a small-town Texas church fatally shot himself after being chased from the crime scene.
The assailant, formally identified Monday as 26-year-old Devin Kelley, walked into the church in Sutherland Springs with an assault rifle Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding 20 more.
“At this time we believe that he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt tells CBS News.
Tackitt recounted how a local citizen — who was also armed — had engaged, and then pursued the gunman as he exited the First Baptist Church.
“A citizen was across the street. They engaged in a firefight for just a little bit,” he says. “The suspect gets in his vehicle and takes off.”
“This — I’m calling him hero — here in town, then stops a truck, and says, ‘I need help. This guy just shot up the church: Follow him.'”
“There was some gunfire exchanged I think on the roadway also, and then he wrecked out,” Tackitt says, adding that he apparently shot himself after crashing his vehicle.
— AFP
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