captioning sponsored by cbs >> somebody ran in there and started shooting everybody. >> glor: a small-town church comes under attack. >> one of the victims came out running from the side, and he was all bloody from his arms and his face. >> we've had a listening night with our children and grand babies that we have left. >> glor: also tonight, the search for a motive. >> there was a domestic situation going on in this family. >> this isn't a guns situation. mental health is the problem here. >> glor: the heroes who chased down the killer. >> i wish i could have gotten there faster. >> glor: and has america grown numb to mass shootings? >> americans are being slaughtered and congress is refusing to protect them. >> this is this is the "cbs evening news."

>> glor: good evening. i'm jeff glor in sutherland springs, texas. behind me is the scene of another mass shooting. it didn't happen in a big city like oral human papilloma virus virus -- orel lando or las vegas. the target this time were worshipers in their small-town church. this was the scene just after the attack. investigators say the suspect wanted to kill everyone in the church. 26 were killed, ranging in age from 18 months to 77 years. 20 others were wounded, ten remain in critical condition. police believe the gunman, 26-year-old devin kelley, took his own life after being chased by armed bystanders. he had received a bad conduct discharge from the air force for domestic assault, and cbs news has learned a mistake by the service may have allowed him to buy his weapon. we have a team of correspondents covering this. we begin with the moments after the shooting. >> somebody ran in there and

started shooting everybody. >> glor: cell phone video shows the victims and the chaos that spilled on to the front lawn of first baptist church after the suspect, 26-year-old devin kelley, went on his horrific spree. >> a dead body right there. >> glor: yellow tarp covered one of the 26 who died. >> it's unbelievable. >> glor: david cassius took the video. >> it was horrifying. some of the equipment had blood on them, gloves with blood on them, a deceased person right there right in front. >> glor: around 11:20 sunday morning, kelley, dressed in black tactical gear, was spotted at a gas station across from the church. he dove over, got out, and started firing with a ruger ar-type rifle. he went inside and continued to fire, shooting dozens. as he left neighbor,, steven wilford, confronted and shot kelley, who dropped his weapon and fled in an s.u.v. a car chase ensued that ended when the suspect ran off the road and crashed. he was found dead inside his

car, possibly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> i'm no hero. >> glor: steven williford heard the shots from his home, ran out without shoes on, an began shooting. >> every time i heard a shot, i knew that probably represented a life. i was scared to death. >> glor: freeman martin is with the texas department of public safety. >> we know during that pursuit the suspect used his cell phone to notify his father that he had been shot and didn't think he was going to make it. >> glor: today f.b.i. agents scoured church property for evidence. three firearms were recovered, including two handguns and the rifle used at the scene. investigators believe the incidents stem from a domestic dispute. kelley was estranged from his current wife, danielle shields. the suspect's mother-in-law, a member of the church, received threatening texts from him but was not present at the time of the shooting. >> we've had a long night with

our children and grand babies we have left. >> glor: pastor frank pomeroy and his wife sherri, who were not at church, lost their youngest daughter annabelle. >> the few of us left behind lost tragically yesterday. as senseless as this tragedy was, our sweet bell would not have been able to deal with losing so much family yesterday. >> glor: kelley bought at least two guns after passing background checks, but the terms of his discharge should have prevented that. david martin on what went wrong. >> reporter: the air force admitted today its office of special investigations apparently failed to report kelley's name to the national criminal information center after he plead guilty to two counts of domestic violence in 2013. because his name did not appear in the database, kelley was able to walk into a gunshot in san antonio last year and buy the semi-automatic rifle police have

identified as the weapon used to kill 26 people. he was convicted. that should have stopped him from getting a gun. >> reporter: don christenson was formerly the top prosecutor. >> he should not have had a gun. one the maximum punishment was more than a year, and two, it was domestic violence. >> reporter: he kicked and pulled the hair of his then wife. he also pleaded guilty to assaulting his stepson by striking him on the head and body with as for likely to produce death or grief vows bodily harm. five other counts of domestic violence including pointing a loaded gun at his wife, were withdrawn as part of his guilty plea. he was sentenced to a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge, leaving the air force after he got out in 2014. the air force will conduct an investigation, but it appears the fatal mistake of failing to enter kelley's name into the database occurred at holloman air force base in new mexico

where he was stationed at the time of his court-martial. jeff? >> glor: david martin, thank you very much. investigators have within digging into the gunman's life also after he left the military. and omar villafranca has more on that. >> reporter: devin kelley earned four medals during his time in the air force, but his violent behavior at home ended his four-year military career. kelley divorced his first wife in 2012 but got remarried to danielle shields in 2014 after his discharge when he proved back to texas. he most recently worked as the overnight security guard at this resort in new braunfels, texas. >> no signs of anything. very quiet, polite young man. >> reporter: the resort manager says kelley left a note on saturday saying he had a headache and left work early. he was scheduled for work the day of the shooting. >> we thought he just didn't show up for work on sunday, and then about 5:30 my maintenance

manager said, have you not been watching the news. i turned it on, and that's when we found out about him. >> reporter: deputies now block the entrance to the last place kelley lived, a house registered to his parents 40 miles north of san antonio. what was your reaction when you found out? >> shock, and horror for the poor people who lost family members. that's probably the hardest part of it. >> reporter: kelley's coworkers at the resort say he was always quiet and just really kind of kept to himself. there are still sheriff's deputies blocking the entrance to his parents' home, and they are not saying if they have searched that property. >> glor: omar, thanks very much. hours after the attack, dozens held a candlelight vigil outside first baptist church. among those killed, lulu white, the grandmother of kelley's estranged wife. nearly half the dead were from two families. michelle miller with more on that. >> reporter: three generations of the holcombes, eight family members in all, including an

unborn baby. >> father, thank you for letting us come to your house today. >> reporter: bryan holcombe, seen here leading another service, was filling in for the regular pastor, the devoted grandfather who loved entertaining his family perished along with his high school sweetheart. bryan's son marc also died, along with one-year-old noah, the youngest victim of the bloodshed. bryan's other son john was worshipping with his wife crystal and their five kids. john survived, but his pregnant wife, who posted regularly about her kids' accomplishment, did not. three of their children, emily, megan, and greg, also lost their lives. earl seasongood is a close family friend. >> it's hard to stop and think about it, because the magnitude of the loss of some people is just unfathomable. >> reporter: the church's pastor, al frank pomeroy, lost s

14-year-old daughter annabelle. >> we've had a listening night with our children and grandbabies we have left. >> reporter: the ward family also lost some of its youngest. five-year-old brook ward and seven-year-old emily garza along with mother joann. nine-year-old mckinley ward hid under the church pews after the gunman's bullet shot the glasses off her face. her brother rye -- rylan was struck four times and is now out of surgery. retired air force serviceman robert corrigan also died alongside his wife shani. they leave behind two sons, jeff, both are on active duty. >> glor: michelle, thank you. earlier today i spoke with terry smith who told me more about her friend joann ward. tell me about joanna. >> joanna was a beautiful mom. she loved her children.

she was a young girl, and she had four children. and she was going to church to start her day, and she never made it out. i'm sorry. this is so heartbreaking. she was like my daughter. >> glor: how long did you know her for? >> i've known her for ten years. >> glor: you wee here yesterday. what did you hear and see? >> we heard the shots that the gentleman was standing right underneath. he was shooting at the building, and he was just shooting. you could see him shooting. and he went around and then we could not see him, but we could still hear the shots. we saw him come around. he went all the way around and back to that area. and then it got real quiet again.

and then we heard a lot of rounds, a lot. >> glor: the 26 who died here represent 4% of the population of this small town. mark strassmann tells us there are no strangers here. >> reporter: roughly 600 people live in sutherland springs, a texas small town with a broken heart. there's a post office but no school, no police department, no reason for outsiders to notice this one-blinking light town, until now. >> it's very close-knit, for loving. our lives are like this. they're interweaved. >> reporter: everyone knows everyone? >> everyone knows everyone. when one hurts, we all hurt. >> reporter: 88-year-old boston latin schoola wilson is the retired postmaster here. her family proved from san antonio to sutherland springs in 1954 to feel safe. >> i have friends that are dead that i don't know which ones

they are. >> reporter: which sounds crazy to say. >> it does. it's numbing. you're just numb. >> reporter: first baptist church often responded to people who found trouble. on sunday, trouble found the church. the on-again-off-again spiritual home for the wilson family over the last 63 years. how important is first baptist to sutherland springs? >> i'd say it's an anchor. >> reporter: when you say "anchor," you mean? >> it's a place where you feel steady. everybody wants to belong somewhere, and you feel like you belong. >> reporter: are you worried that sutherland springs will now become known as the town where this happened? >> i'm sure it will be out there, but i hope people look beyond that to see us get strong again. >> reporter: mrs. wilson was not in the church on sunday, but with so many of her friends and neighbors dead, i asked her when she would start the feel the

anguish, and, jeff, she told me, when the funerals begin. >> glor: mark strassmann, thank you very much. the mass shooting in texas has prompted some in congress to once again call for gun control. will this time be different? here's nancy cordes. >> this isn't a guns situation. >> reporter: america's mass shooting problem came up in tokyo today, where president trump blamed kelley's psyche, not his weapons. >> i think that mental health is your problem here. this was a very, based on preliminary reports, a very deranged individual. >> reporter: but there is no evidence yet that the suspect was ever diagnosed with a mental health disorder. which may explain why he was able to obtain a ruger ar-556 rifle within days of it being named the n.r.a.'s gun of the week. [gunfire] and while u.s. levels of mental

illness are comparable to those in other western countries, our rate of firearm homicides is 6 to 16 times greater. >> they wanted to be able to pray. >> reporter: texas governor greg abbott told cbs this morning it's up to the almighty to turn things around. >> praying and hugs are very good, but what can we do the keep these weapons out of people that you are saying yourself are evil? >> i'm going to use the words of the citizens of sutherland springs themselves, and that is they want to work together for love to overcome evil, and you do that by working with god. >> reporter: here on capitol hill, the debate has become as predictable as mass shootings themselves. >> americans are being slaughtered, and congress is refusing to protect them. >> reporter: democrats pushed for stricter gun laws today as republicans pushed for patience. >> i think being rational people, we ought to want to know exactly what the facts are before we decide what the best course of action might be.

>> reporter: congress does have all the facts about dozens of past mass shootings, of course, but that hasn't led to much action either, whether you're talking about guns or mental health or anything else, jeff. >> glor: nancy cordes, thanks very much. coming up next on the "cbs evening news." president trump in asia talks tough on north korea. and later, senator rand paul is attacked by a neighbor in what's being called a terrorist trivial dispute.

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abe that the commitment to japan is ironclad. >> some people said my rhetoric is very strong, but look what's happened with very weak rhetoric over the last 25 years. >> reporter: mr. trump prodded abe to build up his military in response to north korea's recent launch of two ballistic missiles over japanese territory. >> he will shoot them out of sky when he completes the purchase of a lot of additional military equipment from the united states. >> reporter: there a show of force, the u.s. flew b-1 bombers over the korean peninsula ahead of the president's arrival. the navy is on track to conduct operations with three aircraft carriers in the sea of japan later this week. >> they were abducted in all cases by north korea. >> reporter: the president and first lady also met with the families of japanese citizens kidnapped by north korea. mr. trump seemed to extend an offer to dictator kim jong un. >> if he would send them back, that would be the start of something i think would be just something very special. if they would do that.

>> reporter: japan was the friendliest stop on this five-nation tour. the president isn't as close with the leader here in south korea, who favors a more restrained approach to dealing with the north. jeff, the president has asked congress to boost defense spending by $6 billion. >> glor: margaret, thank you. still ahead, a major university suspends all fraternities and sororities. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong.

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ago, there have been 555 mass shootings at -- as the f.b.i. defines them -- four or more shot at once. 689 people have been killed, nearly 2,700 wounded. >> we got shots fired. sounded like an automatic firearm. two of the five deadliest shootings taken place in the last 35 days. they are all competing for space in our collective consciousness and getting crowded out. take the shootings this man, scott os trump, is accused at in a wal-mart in colorado, three dead five days ago, chances are you haven't heard about it. frank oxburg is a professor of psychiatry at michigan state university. what happens to a culture with more than 50 dead and more than 500 injured is suddenly yesterday's news? >> i think we lose something

vital. emotion often drives thought. and too much exposure to the same kind of violence reduces that emotional response. >> it was unreal. >> reporter: so, yes, we can forget unreal and unbelievable. maybe the word we're looking for to describe our reaction the all these mass shootings is numb. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> glor: we await a new police briefing tonight as we look at a bullet hole in a sunday school building, and as people here try to process what is so difficult for so many of us to understand. we will have the latest details on cbs this morning tomorrow. for now that's the "cbs evening news." i'm jeff glor in sutherland springs. good night.

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