Texas Church Gunman Escaped Mental Facility in 2012

Texas Church Gunman Escaped Mental Facility in 2012
An aerial photo showing the site of a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas on Nov. 6, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas—The man who carried out one of the deadliest U.S. mass shootings escaped from a mental health facility in 2012, the same year he was convicted by a U.S. Air Force court-martial of domestic abuse, according to a police report.

Devin Kelley, who massacred 26 people at a church in rural southeastern Texas on Sunday, was convicted of assaulting his first wife and stepson while serving in the U.S. Air Force in 2012, according to the Pentagon.