Church Shooting in Texas Left 3 Dead

Texas: On Sunday, a gunman killed two people in the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, a western suburb of Fort Worth. Within seconds of launching the attack, the shooter was killed by the church’s volunteer security guards.

White Settlement police were called during mass around 10 a.m., where the shooting was livestreamed on the church’s YouTube channel as parishioners received communion
One churchgoer who sat near the shooter before he began firing told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that she had never before seen the man, who appeared to be wearing a disguise. Isabel Arreola, who was at church with her husband and 7-year-old daughter, said she could not fathom why the church was attacked.

“Our church is so giving,” Arreola said. “We help the homeless. We help people get food, pay for car repairs. If he just needed something, I’m sure we would have tried to help him if he had just asked.”
On Sunday evening, a church volunteer security guard who says he is the one who killed the gunman, wrote on Facebook that “evil does exist in this world and I and other members are not going to allow evil to succeed.” Jack Wilson, a former deputy sheriff and owner of On Target Firearms Training Academy, is running to be a county commissioner. 
Authorities have not addressed a possible motive in the attack or identified the shooter. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno said Sunday that the man was “relatively transient” but had nearby roots. DeSarno also said the gunman had an arrest record, but did not say whether he had links to the church.
Texas has already endured two horrific mass shootings this year: a domestic-terror attack targeting Hispanic Americans at a Walmart in El Paso that killed 22, and a mobile rampage in Midland and Odessa that killed eight.

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