(12 Aug 2024)
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Sutherland Springs, Texas – 12 August 2024
1. Various of construction crew tearing down church
2. Wide of church sign
3. Various of construction crew picking up debris and demolishing church building
STORYLINE:
Crews on Monday began to tear down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017.
Crews used heavy machinery to raze the small building even after some families sought to preserve the scene of the deadliest church shooting in U.S. history.
A judge cleared the way last month for the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs to tear down the sanctuary where the attack took place, which until now had been kept as a memorial.
That ruling came after some families in the community of less than 1,000 people filed a lawsuit hoping for a new vote on the building’s fate.
Church members voted in 2021 to tear it down.
Authorities put the number of dead in the Nov. 5, 2017, shooting at 26 people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. After the shooting, the interior of the sanctuary was painted white and chairs with the names of those who were killed were placed there. A new church was completed for the congregation about a year and a half after the shooting.
(AP video by Eric Gay)
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