Two women believed to be the wife and mother-in-law of the gunman who opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas receive threats
Two women believed to be the wife and mother-in-law of the gunman who opened fire at the First
Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on
Sunday sometimes attended the church and appear to have been close to
the pastor’s family, online records and social media profiles reviewed
by Yahoo News show. And police revealed on Monday that the 26-year-old
gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, of New Braunfels, Texas, sent threatening texts to his mother-in-law.
Officials
say Kelley killed 26 people and wounded 20 others in what authorities
say was the worst mass shooting in state history and the deadliest at
any house of worship in U.S. history. Kelley was found dead following a
high-speed chase that began after he was confronted by armed neighbors
and fled the scene.
According
her Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, Danielle Kelley (nee Danielle Lee
Shields), Devin’s wife of three years, served as a vacation Bible school
teacher at First Baptist Church from 2008 until 2013. Her mother,
Michelle Shields, is listed as a member of the church and is seen in
several Facebook photos with Sherri Pomeroy, the wife of the church’s
pastor, Frank Pomeroy, and in photos and a Facebook video with Annabelle
Pomeroy, the pastor’s 14-year-old daughter, who was killed in Sunday’s
massacre.
Sherri
and Frank Pomeroy were out of town in different states at the time of
the shooting, and the service was led by a guest pastor.
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