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Nov. 5, 2017 - InfoWars Special Reports
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Body Count Rises In Texas Church Mass Shooting
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When I was driving in, I saw a Homeland Security vehicle that was rolling in.
Again, all this is late-breaking and very active, but we want to make sure that we get it as accurate as possible.
Victor, back to you guys.
Thank you.
John Salazar live with the latest briefing to follow.
We will be there for that briefing.
Okay, so you just heard it there.
Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas.
is on his way to Sutherland Springs.
They also seem to be staging people in Stockdale, Texas, which I think is where they're going to do a press briefing.
We've learned that they've closed the main road off going in to Sutherland Springs.
So we're going to try to find to see if we can even get near there.
If not, we'll head over to Stockdale and see what's going on.
And what we have here is an active shooter.
Between 25 and 27 confirmed dead.
Over 20 injured.
The church only holds about 50 people.
So you've got just about everybody in that church was hit in some way, shape, or form either injured or killed.
And then apparently the shooter left the location.
He was pursued.
We heard a report from another church.
They got the call and there was a deputy.
In the congregation who left immediately.
We don't know if he was involved in the pursuit.
Apparently there were sheriff's deputies from Guadalupe County involved in the pursuit.
And at some point either the suspect shot himself or he was killed by police.
Or we're also hearing a report that a man from the church was in pursuit as well and he's the one who shot him.
So we'll try to get confirmation on that.
We're hearing several stories at this point concerning that.
And I think it's because it's a small town.
There's a lot of information flying around.
And I think for the most part they're worried about dealing with the bodies and with the injured.
So the injured are all over the place.
They're going to different hospitals in the area.
There's a county hospital they're going to.
Some are being taken to San Antonio.
University Hospital in San Antonio.
University Hospital in San Antonio.
So we've got this live feed going on the AM station.
We're going to go back to that for a little bit and then I'll address some more things here in just a second.
All right, Michael, we'll come back to you in the news center coming up.
Again, this is live continuing coverage, the very latest on our shooting that took place earlier today at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, where as many as 25 or more people are said to be dead.
Following the shooting that took place there in Sutherland Springs.
Now, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nierenberg says that he is continuing to track the latest on this as well and says that answers will be coming.
It's a very tragic situation and there's active investigation happening right now.
We're asking for people's patience and prayers.
Now, a pastor of a church that is close to the site of the shooting was also under worship services at the time and described what took place when they knew the shooting had taken place nearby.
We were in the middle of our church service.
I was in the middle of preaching when we had some phone calls with the news that there was an active shooting going on at First Baptist Church.
His churchgoers are ready to help in any way that they can.
After the shooting says that many rushed out to see what they could do.
Others stayed inside the church to pray.
He says many knew everybody that was in that church because they take party in a number of services and other activities and events together.
Let's go back now to Fox News.
Continuing coverage on News Radio 1200 W-O-A-R. The church community of Texas do its thing as well to help these people out.
Absolutely.
And I think that's happening.
Our denomination, which this church happens to be a part of, we already have a team en route down there right now to offer chaplaincy services and to minister in any way we can.
But we just really, really welcome the prayers and appreciate the prayers of people of all faiths across our country right now.
Robert Jeffries, Fox News contributor, and he is also a pastor at the First Baptist Church in Dallas.
Thank you for your time, sir.
Thank you so much for your insight, and I'm sure we'll be in touch with you very soon as we continue to talk about this.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Fox News Radio's John Decker also with us.
John Decker is, well, way in Seoul, South Korea, traveling with the president.
And John, as we have told earlier, and as you...
You now know, and I'm sure we'll report, the president is keeping track of what is going on here back at home in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
He is in Deeker now.
He spoke a little bit earlier through Twitter.
That's how he got his message out.
He said, may God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
The FBI and law enforcement are on the scene.
I am monitoring the situation from Japan.
So even though the president is on this very long...
12-day trip to Asia.
Events at home are certainly getting his attention.
And it is this morning.
It is 7.02 local time here in Seoul, South Korea.
So this is essentially what the president has woken up to this morning in Tokyo, Japan.
I think it's pretty interesting that the reporter mentioned that's how he got his message out to the people.
He didn't need President Trump talking about in South Korea right now on his Asia trip.
Didn't need...
Mainstream media.
Didn't need a camera crew.
He went to Twitter, put the message out to the people, so people couldn't even come back in later and say, oh, you didn't respond soon enough.
You didn't do this soon enough.
Always trying to get on the president.
And so he's just able to go to Twitter, which, of course, he had his account taken down for 11 minutes a couple days ago.
At first, Twitter said it was a...
Staffer, it was their last day.
Now I'm hearing reports coming out as well that it was a contracting company dealing with Twitter.
So who has access to pull down accounts willy-nilly whenever they feel like it?
That'll be interesting to see as that comes out.
So you've got the president able to go to his mic to the people and immediately give them his thoughts.
And not wait for a camera guy or a reporter to ask him a question.
That is the new paradigm we're in.
And Trump has excelled in it.
Also, Greg Abbott is en route now down to Sutherland Springs.
And I imagine when he gets there, they're going to have a press conference.
We might be able to make it there at the same time.
I was shooting a video in with Alex talking about Donna Brazile, and I was getting texted.
You see the mass shooting, mass shooting, mass shooting.
Looked it up immediately.
It was on the news.
There were chopper shots from Fox News on there, probably from San Antonio.
And right now we're hitting I-35 over in Seguin.
So we're not too far.
I think we're another maybe 20 minutes from our location.
And we will have more reports as we get closer.
I'm going to go back to the feed here and let you hear what's going on from...
This is 200 a.m.
or 1,200 a.m.
I'm five miles away and he's shot dead.
Your initial thoughts about any possible motivation, of course, is too early.
What do you think?
Well, obviously, police are going to investigate the motive, but, Eric, you asked a question that every single American right now is asking.
You asked this question of the attorney general.
How do you wrap your head around this?
Why, why, why?
And the answer is becoming clear to me as I've been a career law enforcement officer.
Eric, we have been so inundated with violence in this country.
We wake up in the morning and our kids are watching violence on cartoons.
We look at reality shows and we see violence.
We see our political people fighting with each other.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
And so when we look at the question why is, we may be the reason why.
We really have to come together as a nation.
And we have to ask ourselves, where are we going with all of this?
What are we going to do?
To solve the problem.
And I believe it's going to take Hollywood to help us and to really help us with regard to a lot of the violence that they're putting out.
It's going to be parents who are going to have to sit down with their children, spend more time with them.
And it's going to have to be families noting that there may be a family member who is becoming so overwhelmed with the violence in this country where we're going to have to say, hey, look, we're going to have to take you to see someone.
And going back to another point you brought up.
You say something, I'm sorry, you see something, say something.
A lot of people are afraid to say something because they've been conditioned to believe if you say something, you're going to become part of a long, long court process.
You're going to be involved in something you don't want to be involved in.
We need to recondition everyone and to share with them, look, if you see something and say something, all you got to do is tell the police.
You're not going to get involved in anything other than telling the police.
We don't know what the motive of this is at the moment.
We don't know if it's domestic terrorism.
We don't know if it's international terrorism.
We don't know if it's just a nutcase.
We don't know if it's a domestic dispute and he's decided to take his hatred out on everybody in that church, or if it's hatred, a hate crime against a religion like we saw against a race, for example, like we saw in Charleston, South Carolina, or in this case, a religion.
But I mean, what do you do?
Sometimes people go to the police and you say, look, this guy's threatening, this guy's this, and they say, there's nothing we can do, you know, unless, you know, actually does something.
Well, you're right, and that's what normally happens.
So the police are going to have to be retrained also.
Look, when I was working at a detective bureau, there would be people that would come in and say, you know, I saw something just didn't fit with me.
I would send detectives out to maybe survey the situation, ask some questions.
Our police have to understand that.
They do that, I know, in the larger cities.
But now we know, don't we, Eric?
Now we know that everyone is vulnerable, even in small towns, to things like this.
And you're right.
Until we find the motive, we're not going to really understand how this occurred.
But my goodness, there was a trigger point somewhere.
And that's something that the police are really going to have to dig in and find out where that trigger point was.
If it was domestic violence, if it was a...
Those are important questions that have to be answered very quickly.
And literally, in this press conference, they'll answer it.
Yeah, what does your gut say?
And I know it's hard to put you out there, but what does your gut say?
Someone who drove away and...
They cut one of his words off right there.
My gut saying it was something that could have been domestic related.
He probably knew people in the church.
In other words, it's close to home.
He probably lived in the area.
It doesn't seem to me that it was a terrorist act.
All right, Steve, certainly the investigation is continuing.
We will get a update from the news conference from the city hall.
You know, one of the things that the expert left out, when people are also afraid to say something to be labeled a racist.
We saw the mother and daughter in England who went up and told the cops about the guy acting funny who ended up bombing the Ariana Grande concert.
And they said, oh, how would you feel if people were talking about you like that?
Made her feel like she was the bad person.
When she could have, if the police would have acted on that tip, maybe they could have prevented the killing of innocent people and the injuring of innocent people.
Also, we had with the shooters in San Bernardino.
The neighbors knew something was wrong, but they didn't say anything.
Then you have the neighbor of the guy who drove around with the Home Depot truck in New York City running over people.
He saw them driving around but with no materials, no nothing in it.
He said, who does that?
I'm in construction.
That's weird.
So, but, they're conditioned that if you're going to say anything, if it's somebody who's not a white male, that you shouldn't say a word.
Because you're going to be labeled a bigot or a racist or hateful.
So it's interesting the times we're living in now.
People are afraid to talk about things that seem out of place, things that seem fishy because of the world we're living in right now and the political correctness that has gone amok.
And they also didn't mention, oh, you could have been on SSRIs, mass murder pills.
Could have been on Prozac.
We don't know.
That'll be interesting to see if the shooter was on some type of drug.
I mean, I don't know what could possess somebody to go in to a Baptist church and start blowing people away.
You definitely have a screw loose or you have a deep hatred of what's going on.
And usually, if it was something where it was Targeted against somebody, a specific person, you would see maybe that person killed and maybe a few others that were around that person.
But here it just seems to be the entire church was a target.
He was taken out by sheriff's deputy.
As we see on the left hand of our screen here, we're waiting for a press conference and we will hopefully find the identity of this shooter at that point.
We will find out if in fact that shooter is from the area of Southern Springs, Texas, or from outside.
And based on that information that we could possibly learn shortly, what will that tell you, Ted Williams?
Great deal.
That'll tell us if, in fact, we're dealing with an international domestic terrorist, number one, or whether we're dealing with someone mentally impaired, or if we're dealing with somebody actually in that community.
The vehicle was able to leave that church and somebody had to have given law enforcement something to show that they had knowledge of that vehicle, the description, should we say.
That's very significant and important.
And as you said, and we certainly don't know, is as to whether this guy was killed by law enforcement or he, in a suicidal manner, took his own life.
That out in Las Vegas we had the individual who killed all of those folk out there and he took his own life.
So all of these things are question marks and it's gonna also help to calm the nerves in that neighborhood where this is taking place because they want to know as to whether it was one of their own or whether this was somebody outside.
If it was somebody outside, all of America should be concerned.
Ted Williams, you make an excellent point there.
We still have to get the answers to those questions.
If you would stand by for us, as you have been so patiently for the past few hours.
All right, Ted, thanks so much.
We're waiting for the news conference at the Stocktail City, all there on the left.
And we'll bring that to you, of course, as soon as it happens.
Dan Bogino joins us.
He's a former Secret Service agent, former NYPD officer, host of Renegade Republican.
Dan, Steve Rogers' gut is that it's someone local.
And look, he walks in.
He knows it's a small church.
It's not a big target in a big city.
50 people in there.
He shoots almost each and every one.
And he knows how to escape and drive out of town because he's caught in a field where either he's confronted by police or shoots himself.
Could this be someone, and we haven't really raised this yet, who, I mean, churches and pastors deal with a lot of personal problems, whether it's drug, alcohol, divorces, and other issues.
Someone who wanted to take this out in a very local manner.
I'm certain we will find out very shortly from this news conference, because they haven't publicly identified the suspect yet, you know, in terms of a possible motivation here.
Yeah, it could absolutely be local, Eric.
That's likely.
But it could also be someone who cased the location if there is some terrorism angle, which, again, we don't know yet.
But, you know, as a former Secret Service agent, one component I'd like to put out there is, you know, churches sadly have become a very convenient target for a lot of these people who are involved in targeted violence episodes.
And I think one of the reasons that is is because think about what you have in a church.
You know, you have logical ingress and egress.
Where it's very difficult to get out of.
Churches, you don't enter from the front of the church because that's where the priest and the ceremony goes on.
You always enter from the back.
So they're very difficult to escape from.
So they contain almost the natural choke points where people are all going to leave from one specific spot.
Also, you have a notable lack of cover or concealment.
In other words, there's really nowhere to hide in a church.
And that's why I'm never, when I see incidents like this, I'm not willing.
I don't think anyone else is, I don't know, the discount terrorism as an angle because they are such sadly, tragically convenient targets for really deranged people.
I mean, when you talk about that, has there been this type of literature online, in other words, by ISIS and others, or just a radical sense to go and that that's a place to go target for the very reasons you just mentioned?
Yeah, well, when you're a Secret Service agent, you really get paid to think like assassins and people who engage in targeted violence, terrorists.
As a matter of fact, the Secret Service did an exhaustive study on school violence, excuse me, targeted school violence.
And you see a lot of this casing that goes on.
And whether they know they're doing it for that reason or not, they may not know the term, in other words, choke point or covering concealment.
They understand that by looking at that, that that's what a church presents you with.
There's really nowhere to hide.
There's only a couple of ways.
There's only a couple of ways to go out.
They really make for very convenient targets.
And sadly, you know, we're not going to do much about the supply side issue with firearms, especially if this turns out to be some kind of terrorism.
We've come to that point.
This attack and affront, an offense to us, to God, and to humanity.
Dan, thank you.
We'll stay with us as we continue our coverage right now.
Absolutely.
And right now, joining us by phone is Texas Congressman Henry Quillard.
It's an interesting thing Dan was talking about.
The Secret Service did a study on school violence and church violence.
These are both places that are victim disarmament zones.
UT recently allowed for concealed carry on their campus.
And I think you're going to see other places do this.
But where do you see most of these shootings happen?
Churches?
Schools?
Movie theaters?
We're not allowed to have guns either.
And then I guess you're at a concert in Vegas that most of those people weren't even armed.
In fact, there were people who were law enforcement who were asking other people if they had guns so they could help defend people at the Vegas shooting.
And then we had Matt Dubiel on the show yesterday talking about how every month in Chicago is like a Vegas.
Nearly 60 people a month are killed in Chicago every month.
So they get a Vegas a month.
And that's not the law-abiding gun owner's fault, which they're gonna try to demonize with this and every other incident that happens.
Oh, we gotta do something about the guns.
We gotta go after the people with the guns.
The people with the guns aren't the problem.
It's the individuals that are mentally deficient, radicalized, or they've gone insane from taking SSRIs.
Those are the three groups of people that need to be looked at.
And not the man with his gun protecting his family.
But I don't think you're going to see that happen in Texas.
So, the governor's on his way down.
Looks like there's going to be a press conference soon.
I don't know if we'll make it there in time, but we'll obviously give it to you here.
This is Rob Dew reporting for Infowars.com.
We're going to continue our coverage.
Don't stop it yet.
Keep going.
This is a very, very difficult time for that community.
Indeed it is, Congressman Quillard.
I'm sorry, did you just tell me the name of the suspect?
No, no, no, no.
No, I didn't.
I was told that that person probably came in from Comal County.
Apparently he might have been posting something for the last couple of days.
So he came in for what I understand.
Uh, from Comal County.
At least that's what the, uh, law enforcement told me a couple hours ago.
And so we are actually waiting right now, Congressman Cuellar, for a news conference there to answer all of those, uh, questions that you just posed and perhaps to confirm some of the information that you just gave us.
Um, I would love to find out, uh, from you about the people of Sutherland Springs.
Talk to me about their character.
It's a small community, less than 400. I think, you know, I think there is a small community where people know each other.
That church has got folks to go in and pray.
And it's a small community where everybody knows each other.
I've been there many times.
I've been there for fundraisers, for the volunteer fire service there.
People all pitch in.
It's a small community where everybody knows each other.
And it's very unfortunate because as I was talking to some of the folks there, they were telling me, You know, this person got killed.
This person got killed.
They gave thanks to people.
They got killed.
These are people that we're familiar with and Wilson County is familiar with.
And especially in Sunderland, it's a community of less than 400 individuals, a small community.
Congressman Queer, I need to take a break.
Standby, if you will.
I'll talk to you after the break, sir.
Thank you.
And you are listening to continuing coverage of breaking news out of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
A man walks into a church, the First Baptist Church there, and opens fire, killing.
At last word, we have, according to officials to Fox News, 20 to 24 people.
We are awaiting a news conference where we hope to have some more questions about this answered.
One goes to Fox News Radio's Rachel Sutherland, who joins us from Washington.
We've heard a lot of reaction.
Rachel, from various members of Congress, including the two Texas Senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.
We're also hearing from another former lawmaker who herself was touched by gun violence and her statement on this tragedy in Texas today.
Yeah, that was the former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who remembered that she was shot and had to fight for her life and had to learn to walk and talk.
All over again, she's issued a statement saying, I am heartbroken to hear that once again, a place for peace and prayer became a scene of horror and fear.
My heart is with the people of First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, their families and friends, and the first responders who rushed to the scene.
And then she goes on to say, The alarming frequency with which we watch terrifying scenes unfold in our communities is devastating, and it's not normal.
Every single day, 93 Americans are killed with a gun in our country.
In 2016, the number of gun deaths spiked at 38,000.
And she goes on to say since the massacre in Las Vegas that took the lives of 58 people, injured hundreds more.
There have been 33 mass shootings reported in America, states like Maryland, Ohio, and California.
She says today's shooting in Texas brings that number to 34, and that churches, schools, and parks should always be safe spaces where families and friends can gather without fear of violence.
And she's really just saying that this needs to stop the time.
We were discussing a little earlier, Ganahl, times like these, it does raise questions about violence in the United States and how it does seem to keep occurring with alarming frequency.
And the question is, every time that we encounter something like this or go through something like this, we ask, you know, what could have been done to prevent this?
We know, in this case, the shooter's dead, but we know that the federal authorities are looking into the background to see what could have motivated this person.
Where were the guns purchased?
And how long has this been in the planning?
Is there some kind of manifesto somewhere?
Because we just don't know any kind of motivation at this point.
We don't know a lot of details.
So we get a statement from Gabrielle Giffords saying this happens too much and these places should be safe places.
They should be safe places, but also people should be protecting themselves.
You shouldn't expect where you're going to go in this world.
It's always going to be safe.
Police can't be everywhere at once.
We don't live in a police state.
You're not going to have that type of security.
So you have to be vigilant as an American, as a Second Amendment practitioner.
You have to be ready to go at a moment's notice or be ready to react at a moment's notice.
There was a shooting in a Colorado Walmart a few days ago.
Men opened fire.
Ended up getting three people.
But police, you didn't get any more than that.
And police were looking at the security camera and they noted that there were so many other people with concealed carry permits with their weapons drawn, they couldn't figure out who the shooter was right away.
Now that's a double-edged sword too.
You might have good guys shooting each other.
That could happen.
But people reacted and there was a lot less loss of life.
Here you have 50 people taken, well, about half-injured, half-killed out of that 50. And we don't know the identity yet or the motive.
But they are saying he came from Comel County, which is two counties away.
...like we saw at the church in Charleston, South Carolina, with Dylan Roof, or if it's international terror, there's no reason to believe that that's the case right now.
But certainly, these are the sessions that have come up.
There just appears to be more and more of these incidents, and not a whole lot of answers, and a lot of them seem to have different motivations.
Obviously, you know, Dylan Roof was motivated by racism and hate.
And in this case, in the Las Vegas shooting, the only thing that we've come to understand and learn is that that shooter had maybe some mental issues going on.
Perhaps he lost a lot of money recently.
But we may see Grinnell in this case, and what would be different than the Las Vegas shooting, where we never really even saw they had a manifesto.
Typically, these shooters want to send some kind of a message.
And in this case, maybe we'll get some more answers.
and we will hopefully get something Some of those answers at a news conference is expected to happen very soon in Texas.
I do want to share with you a statement from the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, on the shooting in Sutherland Springs.
Of course, he and Mayor de Blasio, Bill de Blasio of New York, and the New York Police Department had to deal with their own tragedy just a little less than a week ago in New York City when eight people were killed when a man used a reddit truck.
This truck is in the lower Manhattan.
To kill several people.
This statement from the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
My heart breaks for the victims of the horrific tragedy in Texas earlier today.
These mass shootings have become appallingly and unforgivably common in our society.
But we must not become numb to tragedy.
We cannot accept mass shootings as part of who we are.
This can and must stop in the memories of those we lost today.
And last month in Las Vegas and last year in Orlando and all across this nation, we must come together and say enough is enough.
The governor goes on to say our hearts break for those men that women and children be lost on this darkest of days.
And they break doubly because we have seen this too many times before.
I join all New Yorkers in mourning this senseless tragedy.
Those words from the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
We'll take you back to Fox News Channel live.
Yes, there will be time for that.
Right now we have families grieving, families in shock.
Having started out the day the way many Americans do, by attending a church service on a Sunday morning, and now they're dealing with death.
They're dealing with injuries that could be affecting them for the rest of their lives.
I wanted to know more in particular, and asking you as a lawmaker, what is it that you would like to see done?
I'm not sure what the answers are, but you are a Texas lawmaker.
I mean, how do we somehow legally find a way to protect these churches, these places of worship?
Well, you know, it's one of those things that you have a lone wolf type of situation.
I mean, quite honestly, it's going to be hard to, you know, stop everybody.
You know, that's a lone wolf here.
Again, we don't know.
You know, I would know this person was from Camille County.
How did that person come from Camille County?
Did he know people with people there?
What's the relationship?
Did he have any sort of mental illness?
We don't know.
Did he acquire a son?
Legally, illegally, we don't know those facts at all.
I mean, are we supposed to put on guard at every church?
In the urban areas, rural areas, you know, that's something that could be extremely difficult to implement.
I mean, there's just a lot of questions that we have.
The law enforcement there, I know Joe Tackett.
Joe Tackett is the sheriff there.
I know the folks there, the deputy sheriff.
They do good things, you know, but, you know, who would have expected on a Sunday in a rural area, a small rural area?
Sutherland Springs Fair, who I think got established there in 1851, you know, that we would have this type of shooting in a small...
If you were to ask me about a shooting sector, I would have never guessed that it would have been in Sutherland Springs, Wilson County, Texas.
It is definitely the picture from what we can see.
Unfortunately, none of these horrible crime scenes that we're putting up here on the screen now, but based on the descriptions of the church members, it is definitely...
Certainly a place in America where innocence prevails and a place where there is no place for evil.
Unfortunately, evil touched down there this Sunday morning at 11.30, your time, central time there.
Congressman Quayar, I appreciate your time.
We share with you and your loss.
Our prayers are with you.
I wonder if we should go to Stockdale, which is straight ahead.
That's where they're going to have the press conference.
And then we can go by the scene.
I think we should do that.
This tragedy has touched all of us.
The governor saying, my heart breaks for the victims of the horrifying tragedy in Texas earlier today.
These mass shootings have become appalling and unforgivable, common in our society, but we must not become numb to tragedy.
We cannot accept mass shootings.
Congressman, I thank you for your time.
I do have to go, sir, and we will continue this breaking news after this short break.
And you are listening to continuing breaking news coverage here on Fox News Radio of the tragedy in Texas, where 20 to 24 people, as we have heard, and has last been confirmed to Fox News Channel from officials on the ground in Sutherland Springs, Texas, were killed as a gunman entered the First Baptist Church in that very small town, and with about 50 people or so as we...
Notice they didn't say a gun entered the church.
They said a gunman.
You have the New York Times that says truck attack.
Like a truck went and attacked people.
So we're now entering in Stockdale.
We're going to look for the city hall, and I think that's where they're going to be doing a news conference here.
The idea of what happened.
Maybe, as this investigation continues, who this person may have been.
That information may or may not come out as this investigation continues.
Officials who are looking into this shooting may still be trying to piece together why this person decided to attack this particular church.
Was it something that was domestically motivated?
Was it just a random act?
Not something that we are sure about at this point, but we are hearing from many people.
We have heard from members of Congress.
We've heard from the President of the United States, the Democratic National Committee also.
Commenting, the DNC Chair Tom Perez releasing a statement, I'm heartbroken by the horrific shooting in Texas.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Sutherland Springs and all those affected by this unspeakable tragedy.
He goes on to say no American should ever be afraid to worship.
No family should ever face the unbearable pain that too many American families are feeling today.
In the last 35 days, we've witnessed two of the worst mass shootings in American history.
We cannot allow those who wish us harm to...
We must be united in working to ensure that these tragedies become a relic of the past rather than routine.
Those words from DNC Chair Tom Perez, and he released that in a statement today.
Fox News Radio's Rachel Sutherland joining us from Washington.
And again, we mentioned...
The words from Texas Senators as they have been tweeting about this and tweeting their support for the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas on this very tragic and dark day.
All right, we've pulled into, this is the city of Stockdale, and this is their community building.
So we're gonna be here just for a little bit.
We may move on.
I'm gonna go try to find out what's going on with With the press conference.
So you want to just stay in here for a second?
I'll find out.
House Speaker Paul Ryan saying reports out of Texas are devastating.
The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers now.
And former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is now Energy Secretary, tweeting, Anita and I, his wife, send our prayers to the victims of the shooting in Texas.
So no shortage of reaction to what's going on, even as the president travels.
In Asia, he says he is monitoring the situation from Japan.
We've also seen a tweet from daughter Ivanka Trump saying, God bless the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Our country's hearts are breaking for the victims and their families.
We love and are with you.
And as you mentioned, Granol, not much is known about this shooter except that this person is no longer alive.
We don't even know.
Police are saying that they took him down, but it could have been a suicide.
Often in these cases, the shooter dies along with everybody else.
And knows full well as we're going into it.
You and I have covered a lot of these, unfortunately, these situations.
They tend to know full well.
They're not getting out of this.
It's going to be right inside, so we will go live as soon as the press conference goes live.
We'll be live here on Facebook.
They say it's going to happen sooner rather than later.
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