SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tx. — At least 26 people were killed and more than 20 injured in a mass shooting at a Texas church Sunday morning, a law enforcement official told ABC News.
It happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 40 miles southeast of San Antonio.
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Among those killed at the white clapboard church was a 14-year-old girl named Annabelle Renee Pomeroy, according to her father, Frank Pomeroy, who is pastor at the church.
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Annabelle “was one very beautiful special child,” Pomeroy told ABC News by phone.
Pomeroy said he was in Oklahoma this morning -- a rare weekend that he wasn't at the church.
Annabelle is his youngest daughter.
The other victims are all close friends of his, he said. They range in age from 18 months to 77 years old.
The shooter, Devin Kelley, 26, died of a self-inflicted gunshot a few miles away from the church.
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