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    Texas Church Shooter May Have Been Motivated To Kill By 'Domestic Situation'

    Authorities said they don't believe racial or religious reasons drove Devin Kelley, who gunned down 26 people in Sutherland Springs. Here's what we know Monday — and the questions still unanswered.
    by Colin Dwyer Nov 06, 2017 4 minutes
    Newspaper photographers look on as the sun rises over the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, the site of a mass shooting during a Sunday service. / Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Updated at 2:54 p.m. ET

    A "domestic situation" might lie behind the massacre that unfolded at a small South Texas church during Sunday services, authorities say. At a news conference Monday, law enforcement officials explained that the gunman — identified by police as 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley — had sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, who is a parishioner at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

    Currently, officials say they do not believe the attack was racially or religiously motivated.

    "One thing everybody wants to know is, 'Why did this happen?' It's a senseless crime," said Freeman Martin of the Texas Department of Public Safety. "But we can tell you it was a domestic situation going on within this family."

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