SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) – The mother-in-law of the gunman who fatally shot more than two-dozen worshippers at the Sutherland Springs First Batpist church said he was a controlling man who was easily offended, quick to anger and limited his wife’s contact with her family.
Michelle Shields told the San Antonio Express-News that 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley at one point texted her that he would “destroy your entire life” if she came to the hospital where her daughter was giving birth to the couple’s second child.
Six months later, on Nov. 5, authorities said Kelley opened fire at the church, just southeast of San Antonio.
Kelley later died from what authorities said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Authorities also said threatening texts sent to Shields could be a motive in the shooting but add that the investigation is ongoing.
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