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struggle4progress

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Tue Nov 7, 2017, 05:02 PM Nov 2017

Church shooter once escaped from mental health center

Jim Vertuno, Will Weissert and Paul J. Weber
Associated Press

The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church was treated at a mental health center in New Mexico and briefly escaped in 2012, a Houston TV station reported Tuesday.

Devin Patrick Kelley was also caught trying to bring guns onto Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico when he was stationed there, according to an El Paso police report obtained by KPRC.

Kelley, who was 21 at the time, had made death threats against superior officers, the report said.

He was committed to a mental health facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, but at some point escaped and was later found by police at a bus station in downtown El Paso in June 2012 ...


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-texas-church-shooting-witness-accounts-20171107-story.html

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