The daughter of the pastor asked me for help and I told her to keep silent, but the murderer discovered that she was alive and killed her, he said.IANSin/Post Source: Ians feed.Kelley who had a history of mental disorders and domestic abuse was dressed in black and wearing a bullet-proof vest when he attacked the church in the heretofore quiet town some 45 km southeast of San Antonio.

I tried so that the shooter thought that I, too, had died, the woman said. It seemed like a rain of bullets, she added.The couple were in one of the first aisles of the church when the 26-year-old gunman entered and opened fire on the panic- to be as quiet as possiblestricken congregation, many of who sought shelter under the pews.Kelleys first targets were the teenagers who were recording the church service, as is done each Sunday, and then he turned his semi-automatic rifle on the musicians, according to Solis, who was shot in the shoulder during the 16-minute carnage.In some cases, the childrens mothers tried to defend their kids by putting themselves in front and begging for mercy, but Kelley did not waver and gunned down the mothers as well.Texas Department of Public Safety official Freeman Martin said on Monday that investigators recovered hundreds of shell casings from the scene along with 15 empty 30-round ammunition clips.

A Spanish couple, who survived the rampage on Sunday, told Efe news on Tuesday.After running a few yards, he immediately called 911 and reported the attack.Ramirez was able to get out of the church after crawling to the door and exiting when the attacker had his back turned.He said that since the attack on Sunday he has not been able to sleep because the screams of the children before they died kept running through his head all night long.Roxana Solis and Joaquin Ramirez were two of the approximately 20 survivors most of them gravely wounded in the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs.The dead ranged from under two-years-old to 77, with the local Holcombe family being especially hard-hit and losing eight members in the massacre.After feeling the shot, I played dead.The surviving couple, who live less than three minutes by car from the church, both said that the killer was especially savage with the children in the congregation, whom China Auto accessories Suppliers he fired upon at point-blank range.Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) Devin Kelley, the gunman who killed 26 persons inside a US church in Texas, went through the pews (church benches) looking for survivors to execute, a media report said