Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Texas church killer groomed me & took my virginity at 13
Victim reveals abuse by Kelley He made her pose for naked pics
from him was six months ago when he texted her a photo of a topless girl and asked if it was her. Brittany also said Kelley set up a fake profile on Facebook to talk to her. Kelley, 26, took his own life after his gun rampage. Brittany, from San Antonio, Texas, said: “He was a monster. The world is a better place now he is gone... I now know he was a paedophile. He used me to fulfil his sick kicks.”
She thinks Kelley became a “ticking timebomb” following being kicked out of the military after he was courtmartialed by the US Air Force in 2012 for attacking his first wife and breaking his stepson’s skull.
The Air Force has launched a probe into why it failed to follow rules on alerting law enforcement agencies about Kelley’s crimes. He should have been barred from buying guns due to the domestic violence conviction.
It has also emerged he broke out of a psychiatric hospital while in the Air Force, after making death threats against superiors and trying to smuggle weapons on to his base.
He was captured at a bus station after escaping the hospital where he was sent after being charged with assaulting his wife and baby stepson.
Survivors of the church massacre have begun speaking out. Rosa Solis, who was shot in the arm, said Kelley walked up and down the church’s aisle, shouting: “Everybody dies.”
Rosa, who survived by pretending to be dead, added “people [were] screaming and crying” and children were yelling for their mums.
It is thought Kelley targeted the church after a feud with his motherin-law, who is a parishioner there.