Unic Press UK: The ownership of guns in the United States was not a factor in Sunday’s gory shooting at a church in a rural part of Texas, the United States president Donald Trump said during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan.
Responding to a question in relation to the deadly incident, President Trump said:
“I think that mental health is a problem here. Based on preliminary reports, this was a very deranged individual with a lot of problems over a very long period of time. We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries, but this isn’t a guns situation … we could go into it but it’s a little bit soon to go into it. Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, otherwise it wouldn’t have been as bad as it was, it would have been much worse. This is a mental health problem at the highest level. It’s a very sad event…”
Many people were killed, while several others were injured when a gunman, who was armed with a rifle, attacked innocents in a church located in rural Texas, the authorities at Wilson County said on Sunday.
Twenty-three people were found dead inside the church, two were found dead outside the church, another person has been confirmed dead. About twenty people were transported to a hospital.
The suspected shooter, a young white male in his twenties, Devin Kelley of the City of New Braunfels, Texas, stormed the church at circa 11:20 a.m. on Sunday, the 5th November 2017.
The suspect was found dead in a car. At the time of this report, the authorities have yet to confirm whether he died of self-inflicted gunshots, or whether he was shot by a local who had engaged him in a shootout.
