Sutherland Springs church shooting victims identified

Entire Statesman article quoted below:
"Some of the 26 people killed in Sunday’s shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, including family members spanning three generations, have been identified in multiple media reports.

Here are some of their names:

• Annabelle Renee Pomeroy, 14, daughter of Frank Pomeroy, First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs pastor, and Sherri Pomeroy, who were out of town at the time of the shooting, according to the Associated Press. Pomeroy was a seventh grade student at Briesemeister Middle School in the Seguin school district,according to district’s superintendent.

“ We have had a long night with our children and grandchildren we have left,” Frank Pomeroy said during a news conference Monday.

Sherri Pomeroy said that the church was a close-knit family. “As senseless as this tragedy was, our sweet Belle would not have been able to deal with losing so much family yesterday,” she said.

• Bryan Holcombe, associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. According The Washington Post, he was filling in for Frank Pomeroy and about to lead the congregation in worship when Devin Kelley started to shoot. Holcombe also participated in prison ministry where he would sing and play the ukulele for prisoners, according to the AP.

Bryan Holcombe’s Facebook profile picture shows a faded photo of him when he was young, holding hands with his wife Karla, perhaps sometime around 1972 according to a comment by Bryan. His previous four profile pictures boast his grandchildren.

“ We knew when he was born, that he was going to be a preacher,” his father Joe Holcombe told the Post. “His first word was ‘God.’”

• Karla Plain Holcombe, Bryan Holcombe’s wife of about 40 years, according to The Washington Post. On Facebook, Karla Plain Holcombe posts pictures of her grandchildren baking in the kitchen. Her last post shared First Baptist Church’s Fall Festival event. Strangers have begun to comment on the post giving their condolences to the Holcombe family.

"The Fall Festival was the last time family friend Jenna Brown saw Karla Holcombe, Brown told the Daily Beast.

“ She was joking and just as happy as always,” Brown told the Daily Beast.

• Marc Daniel Holcombe, 36, Bryan and Karla Holcombe’s son

• Crystal Holcombe, Bryan and Karla Holcombe’s daughter-in-law and wife of their son John Holcombe; she was pregnant. She home-schooled her five children, The Washington Post reported.

• Noah Holcombe, 1, Marc Daniel Holcombe’s daughter

The Holcombe Family

• Emily Hill , Crystal Holcombe’s daughter

• Megan Hill , Crystal Holcombe’s daughter

• Greg Hill , Crystal Holcombe’s son

• Joann Ward, survived by her husband and two children who were in the church.

• Brooke Ward, 5, Joann Ward’s daughter

• Emily Garza, 7, Joann Ward’s daughter

Lula White

• Lula White, grandmother-in-law of shooter Devin Kelley, according to CNN. The network reported that White volunteered frequently at the church.

• Tara McNulty, attending church with her children, who were injured, according to a Facebook post about a fundraiser in her honor.

Kevin Koenen, manager at The Aumont Saloon, told the American-Statesman Tara McNulty worked for him for three years.

“She was a great person – a great mother,” Koenen said. “She just had a big heart. She was willing to do anything and everything.”

• Haley Krueger, 16, loved babies and wanted to become a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit,according to a GoFundMe page.

• Dennis Johnson

• Sara Johnson, Dennis Johnson’s wife.  The Johnsons’ son-in-law confirmed their deaths on social media." End quote.

Former NRA Instructor Used AR-15 To Shoot Texas Church Gunman As He Was Reloading His Weapon

Weasel Zippers   Video at the link.   Via KBHS:

Stephen Willeford shot and chased the man who killed 26 people in a Texas church on Sunday. He spoke to 40/29 News in an exclusive sit-down interview on Monday.

Willeford was at home when his daughter came into his bedroom to tell him she heard gunshots at the First Baptist Church nearby.

Willeford, a former NRA instructor, got his rifle out of his safe while his daughter looked outside again. She ran back in and told him she saw a man in black tactical gear shooting up the church.

“I kept hearing the shots, one after another, very rapid shots – just ‘pop pop pop pop’ and I knew every one of those shots represented someone, that it was aimed at someone, that they weren’t just random shots,” Willeford said.”

Willeford loaded his magazine and ran across the street to the church, not even taking the time to put on shoes. When Willeford saw the gunman, he exchanged gunfire.

“He saw me and I saw him,” Willeford said. “I was standing behind a pickup truck for cover.”

“I know I hit him,” Willeford said. “He got into his vehicle, and he fired another couple rounds through his side window. When the window dropped, I fired another round at him again.”

The gunman then sped down the highway.

Willeford spotted a pickup truck at a stop sign. He ran to the truck and asked the driver for help.

“That guy just shot up the Baptist church. We need to stop him,” Willeford told the driver.

Willeford and the driver chased the gunman down the highway. On the way, they called 911 to give a description of the gunman’s vehicle and where they were.

Eventually, they caught up to the gunman’s truck. The gunman slowed down before speeding up and hitting a road sign. The gunman’s truck flipped and went down into a ditch.

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Both photos from Stephen Willeford, 55, embraced Johnnie Langendorff, 27, in an emotional hug on Monday night at the vigil for the victims of the tragic shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs.

CNN, others hyperventilate over President Trump’s perfectly fine fish-feeding

WaPo  "President Trump makes all kinds of news on his overseas trips. This is a fellow, after all, who’ll nudge a foreign leader aside for greater visibility. Who’ll skip a walk with his fellow Group of 7 leaders and wait for a golf cart. Or who’ll say whatever occurs to him.

"So, by all means, watch his every move.

"That’s apparently what CNN was doing when it published a story Monday under
the headline, “Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond.” How is that newsworthy? Well, it’s newsworthy if Trump acted like a boor and pounded the precious koi with an overabundance of food. Such appears to be the case if you look at the video below, which starts with a shot of Trump, alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, flicking spoonfuls of food from a wooden box into the koi pond below. Then the shot narrows to Trump himself, and he empties the entire box." . . .

FAKE NEWS: Journos Eat Crow After Mocking Trump For Feeding Fish In Japan

"A number of journalists on Twitter lambasted President Donald Trump for pouring an entire box of food into a pond of precious Japanese koi, some even suspecting that amount of food could damage the fish.
As the meme spread through social media, other users joined in teasing Trump for improper conduct during the photo-op on his first state visit to Japan, until full video of the incident came out showing Trump was just following the example of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe."

You can be sure Keith Olbermann mocked the President.
Then this:
Keith Olbermann Calls Trump A “Pig” For Offering Prayers To Victims Of Texas Church Shooting…

NEW BIN LADEN DOCUMENTS: Obama Concealed Al Qaeda-Iran Ties to Save His Insane Nuke Deal

"The latest revelations confirm how badly Obama first misjudged and then deliberately misrepresented to the American people the continuing strength of the jihadist terrorist threat on his watch."

Doug Ross Journal  "The CIA released on Wednesday approximately 470,000 files of materials from the trove recovered during the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The materials include internal documents, practice reels for public speeches, audio correspondence, and imagery gathered or generated by al Qaeda for a variety of purposes.

"Today’s release of recovered al-Qaeda letters, videos, audio files and other materials provides the opportunity for the American people to gain further insights into the plans and workings of this terrorist organization," said CIA Director Mike Pompeo. "CIA will continue to seek opportunities to share information with the American people consistent with our obligation to protect national security."

"The newly released materials provide some additional insights into al Qaeda’s operations. They also expose the Obama administration’s misrepresentations regarding al Qaeda’s strength, which may be one reason Obama administration officials resisted a public release of this magnitude.

"Obama boasted regularly that al Qaeda was “decimated” and “on the run” during his 2012 presidential campaign. He made these claims despite having been informed privately by his intelligence team that al Qaeda was spreading into other regions, including in Africa, while still operating under a central leadership.

"In August 2013, Obama said that al Qaeda’s “tightly organized and relatively centralized al Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 has been broken apart and is very weak and does not have a lot of operational capacity.” He went on to characterize al Qaeda as made up of “regionalized organizations.”

"When Obama made his claims, he had available to him contradictory information gleaned from a handwritten, 228-page journal kept by Osama bin Laden himself, which was part of the trove secured in the raid. That document has now just been publicly released." . . .

Obama hid al-Qaida threat, Iran link  . . . “ 'Second, the documents proved beyond any reasonable doubt that al-Qaida had an uneasy but mutually beneficial relationship with Iran, and Obama spent much of his second term laboring to convince Americans that the Iranian regime could be trusted.”

"President Trump and CIA director Mike Pompeo should get credit for “making good on their predecessors’ pledges – and prevailing over the bureaucratic inertia that would have kept the vast majority of these documents secret forever,” the editors said." . . .

Department Of No-Justice

Anomalous media  

"The Media claims that Trump is trying to corrupt the DOJ, but many say Obama beat him to it."

From my cold dead hands: Gun control calls in the wake of the Texas church massacre

Claire Hawks  . . . "The first thing the Nazis did was to disarm the citizenry, making it so much easier to shoot and kill people or force people into death camps.  The Second Amendment is in the Bill of Rights specifically to allow the citizenry to rise up against a tyrannical government, just as Americans did against the tyrannical rule of the king during the American Revolution.

"More and more recently, it seems as though liberals are trying not only to limit our rights, but to rewrite and bury our history.  Ask most people about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, and you will usually be met with a blank stare.  All they know about Thomas Jefferson, it seems, is that he was a slave owner.  Now they have moved on to vilifying George Washington.

"Truthful American history should be part of the curriculum in not only high school, but college.  An additional requirement in college should be a basic class in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Hillsdale College not only has this requirement for all students matriculating at their college, but offers numerous free online courses as well." . . .

Claire Hawks is an occasional contributor to American Thinker, retired from her nursing and I.T. careers and the editor of Black Lies Matter by Taleeb Starkes.

Dems and media rush to politicize Sutherland massacre   "Less than a week ago, when a Muslim winner of the absurd "Diversity Lottery" immigrant visa program committed jihad on a bicycle path on Lower Manhattan, Senator Chuck Schumer self-righteously warned us against rushing to politicize the incident.

I guess it's not too soon to politicize a tragedy.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 1, 2017  . . .  Thomas Lifson

 

Read Our Lips: No More Bushes

"Hillary, the candidate Bush 41 voted for, would, along with Obama, let four Americans die in a Benghazi terror attack they could have prevented and lied about to the parents later. Bill and Hillary would use their Clinton Foundation as a pay-for-play racketeering scheme to enrich themselves; . . ."

Daniel John Sobieski"  . . . "The only Republican President since World War II not to get elected to a second term, George Herbert Walker Bush, has broken President Ronald Reagan’s  11th commandment to speak ill of another Republican, President Donald Trump, in his new book, The Last Republicans. Perhaps the book in which Bush whacked Trump should have been called, “The Last RINOs” for in addition to calling Trump a “blowhard” Bush 41 saying he voted for Hillary Clinton:

The new book, by author Mark K. Undegrove, consists mostly of interviews looking back at the Republican Party over the past few decades and explores the connection between the elder Bush and his son, former President George W. Bush.

The younger Bush told Undegrove that he voted for “none of the above.”

The father and son each raise concerns that Trump has essentially blown up the GOP to the extent that the New York businessman and first-time politician could be the party’s last president for a long while, according to The Times review.

In a sense, one can understand if both Bushes don’t feel like sending President Trump a Christmas card. As a candidate Trump trashed Jeb Bush mercilessly as a low-energy supposed heir to the Bush dynasty. Trump said neither Bush should have gone into Iraq, citing it as a cause for subsequent chaos in the Middle East.

On this Trump is wrong. Bush 43 secured a tremendous victory in Iraq, leaving a stable Iraq backed by a strong U.S. presence. It was President Obama who threw that away by failing to secure a status of forces agreement and then engaging in a precipitous withdrawal that created a void that ISIS filled while Obama looked the other way. But it was Obama that threw away their victory, not Trump, who is stacking ISIS fighters like cordwood in Iraq and Syria. Obama called it the “wrong war”: . . .

. . .  

Yet the Bushes have no unkind words for Obama, who squandered their victory, and made a career of blaming the Bushes for everything but the common cold. At the unveiling of the White House portrait of Bush 43, Obama made a verbal slap at the mess he inherited from Dubya, noting:" . . .

Antifa rally a 'COMPLETE FLOP': Anti-Trump protestors OUTNUMBERED by supporters

UK Express  "Anarchists were accused of planning to hijack anti-Trump protests across America yesterday, with the alt-right warning of the "Antifa apocalypse".

"The apocalyptic narrative took hold despite the fact that the leftist groups planning to protest yesterday only have dubious connections to Antifa.  

"Left-wing action group Refuse Fascism organised a series of non-violent anti-Trump protests in 20 cities across the United States, including in Honolulu, in a bid to unseat Donald Trump.

"And it seems the event went of largely without incident, wth Antifa civil war fears proving unfounded as police reported a distinct lack of criminal damage or violence.

"Now right-wing critics have accused the anti-facist movement, known for its militant and often violent tactics, of being a complete failure.militant and often violent tactics, of being a complete failure.

"Hundreds of protesters calling on President Trump to resign took to the streets of Manhattan on Saturday for a rally in Times Square in a bid to force the commander-in-chief from office.

"Co-organizer Luis Barrios, 65, said: “One of the things we say is we need to make a wake up call.

“I't’s possible to drive this regime out. That’s what we’re doing, educating people, mobilising people and bringing hope back.” . . .

Leftist 'Refuse Fascism' Anti-Trump Protests Mostly Peaceful — Because No One Showed Up

" 'Refuse Fascism" protests took place in 20 cities Saturday as leftists and "anti-Fascists" took to the streets to protest the "Trump-Pence regime." But unlike earlier protests — particularly the ones that took place in the wake of the 2016 election — the Refuse Fascism demonstrations were mostly peaceful.

"But mostly because no one showed up.

"The mainstream media was quick to announce that there were no arrests and only minimal unrest at the two dozen or so protests that took place Saturday, but, oddly enough, there was little mention of crowd size — except to reference the massive crowds that took to the streets last year. That's because even in major cities like Chicago and New York, the protests were best described as "anemic."

"In Chicago, only around 100 people showed up to protest in a cold drizzle Saturday morning. " . . .

'Creepy, crazy and weird': Former classmates say Texas gunman was an 'outcast' who 'preached his atheism' online before killing 26 in the state’s worst ever mass shooting

UK Daily Mail  "The Texas church shooter who mercilessly shot dead 26 people and injured 24 others was an 'outcast' who 'preached his atheism' online.

"Former classmates say Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, who stormed First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas and opened fire on Sunday, was 'creepy', 'crazy' and 'weird'.

"Patrick Boyce, who attended New Braunfels High School with the killer, told DailyMail.com: 'He had a kid or two, fairly normal, but kinda quiet and lately seemed depressed.

" 'He was the first atheist I met. He went Air Force after high school, got discharged but I don't know why. 

"'I was just shocked [to hear the news]. Still haven’t quite processed how he could have done that.'

"Nina Rose Nava, who went to school with the gunman, wrote on Facebook: 'In (sic) in complete shock! I legit just deleted him off my fb cause I couldn't stand his post. 

"'He was always talking about how people who believe in God we're stupid and trying to preach his atheism' 

"Christopher Leo Longoria replied: 'I removed him off FB for those same reasons! He was being super nagtive (sic) all the timd (sic).' 

Your schadenfreude Sunday treat

Thomas Lifson  "It is not often we get to see vile people receive their comeuppance.

"This week brought some excellent news: a vile magazine, Teen Vogue, is shutting down. Megan Fox of PJ Media noted that the announcement came shortly after the magazine (sold on many supermarket newsstands) published a “Guide to Anal Sex” for teenage girls. In addition to regularly luring fashion-conscious adolescents into risky sexual exploration, the magazine has become a leading basher of Donald Trump."

. . . 

"So, what kind of people would devote their lives to such an enterprise? Thanks to Tucker Carlson, we got to meet and get a sense of one of Teen Vogue’s (former?) stars,  Lauren Duca, whose “Thigh High Politics” column regularly regaled adolescent females with such recent topics as Fox News Is Undermining American Democracy and We Have to Stop Pretending We Can’t Do Anything About Gun Violence.

"Tucker invited Ms. Duca on his show, after she sent out a noxious tweet on the wake of Ivanka Trump and her children being harassed on a Jet Blue airplane flight.

. . . 

"Tucker invited Ms. Duca on his show, after she sent out a noxious tweet on the wake of Ivanka Trump and her children being harassed on a Jet Blue airplane flight.

"Tucker treated her exactly as she deserved. Be sure to watch to the end, where her audio feed is cut off as she descends to apparent obscenities.

Vin Scully says he'll 'never watch another NFL game again' due to anthem protests

CBS Sports  "Saturday night, former Dodgers announcer and Hall of Famer Vin Scully was at the Pasadena Civic Center for an event called "An Evening With Vin Scully."
"At some point during the event, Scully was asked about the NFL's national anthem protests, in which players have taken a knee during the anthem to protest police brutality and racism. Scully said he "will never watch another NFL game" because of the protests.. . . 

"Here is a full transcript of Scully's comments, via Deadspin:

"I have only one personal thought, really. And I am so disappointed. And I used to love, during the fall and winter, to watch the NFL on Sunday. And it's not that I'm some great patriot. I was in the Navy for a year -- didn't go anywhere, didn't do anything. But I have overwhelming respect and admiration for anyone who puts on a uniform and goes to war. So the only thing I can do in my little way is not to preach. I will never watch another NFL game."

"Scully, who will turn 90 later this month, briefly served in the navy before beginning his broadcasting career. So far only one player, Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell, has knelt during the national anthem." . . .

Rand Paul assaulted by Trump hater, Bernie Sanders supporter

Rick Moran  "Senator Rand Paul was tackled to the ground by a neighbor while he was mowing his lawn in Bowling Green, KY on Friday, causing minor injuries according to a police report. The neighbor, Rene Boucher, and Paul were embroiled in some kind of feud, according to another neighbor.

"But Boucher's Facebook postings reveal a virulent Trump hater and a supporter of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

"According to the warrant against Boucher, the attack was "intentional":

The warrant, which was obtained by CNN affiliate WBKO in Bowling Green, said Paul had injuries to his face, including small cuts to the nose and mouth area, and had trouble breathing due to a potential rib injury. Paul was seen by a doctor Friday, the warrant said.

Police allege Boucher, 59, "admitted going onto Paul's property and tackling him," the warrant said.

"Tyler O'Neil of PJ Media, found a Facebook account belonging to a "Rene Boucher" from Bowling Green who listed his occupation as anesthesiologist." . . .