Survivors bear witness to hell

Devin Patrick Kelley stalked the pews inside First Baptist Church in Texas Sunday morning, targeting sobbing babies after screaming out: “Everybody’s going to die, motherf--kers!”

“He was going through the aisles all around. He was looking all around and shooting at everybody, going through the rows,” recalled Roseanne Solis, 57, who played dead underneath a pew after getting shot in the shoulder.

“I feel sorry for all these children that had no reason to die — babies,” Solis (right) said.

The congregation in Sutherland Springs had just finished singing a worship song when bullets came tearing in at them from outside.

“Someone said, ‘Get down, someone’s shooting at us!’ ” Solis told The Post. “Everybody went down, started screaming all over the place.”

The loud pops of gunfire briefly stopped — until Kelley, dressed in black body armor and wearing a skull mask, entered the church and began picking off his victims row by row.

“He came inside the church to finish everybody off. He didn’t want anyone alive,” Solis said.

Kelley, who had recently attended a fall festival at the chapel, attacked church singers first — and intentionally shot babies and kids who started crying, Solis’ boyfriend, Joaquin Ramirez said.

“The kids that were crying were shot,” he said.

Ramirez held a finger to his lips to silence 14-year-old victim Annabelle Pomeroy — the pastor’s daughter and one of 26 killed in the massacre — as she cried for help, knowing Kelley would target her for making noise.

“My boyfriend saw him shoot the pastor’s daughter,” said Solis, who started attending the church eight months ago. “When he was going row to row, he shot her three times.”

A man sitting behind the stricken teenager tried to make a run for it amid the chaos but he, too, was shot dead.

“Some guys tried to run away, [and] he shot them,” Solis said. “That guy was dead because he tried to run.”

Farida Brown, 73, watched as Kelley murdered the woman next to her, firing four bullets into her body — and figured she was his next target.

“She only saw the guy’s boots walking around everywhere, and heard him go row to row shooting people that were down on the ground for safety and cover,” Brown’s son, David, told KENS TV.

“The shooter was making his rounds and he ended up there and started shooting this lady multiple times.

“And the lady looked at my mom the whole time and my mom was looking at her, telling her, ‘It’s OK, you’re going to go to heaven.’ ”

Brown began praying, certain she wouldn’t make it out of the church alive — until rifle-toting plumber Stephen Willeford began firing at Kelley from outside the church.

“Somebody with a gun was at the door, so [Kelley] turned his focus off of her and went to deal with the guy with the gun at the door,” David said.

When the gunfire finally ended, dozens of victims lay bloody on the floor.

“I saw a girl in front of me — they shot her in the back,” Solis said. “I could see all the blood coming out of her pants. I never want to think about it again. It looked horrible.”

Solis, who now plans to worship from home, said she had seen Kelley at church about six months ago hugging his wife, who sometimes attended services there.

Kelley had also gone to a fall festival at the chapel with his family just five days before his massacre, the Houston Chronicle reported.

A friend of Kelley’s mother-inlaw, Michelle Shields, saidd fellow churchgoers were aware of conflicts within the family — and saw it as a hopeful sign that hee showed up at the event.

“They thought, ‘Oh, this is good. This is progress,’ ” Tambria Read told the newspaper.

Authorities said this week that Kelley was estranged from his wife and angry at his mother-inlaw, who worships at First Baptist but wasn’t inside the church when he attacked, and had sent her threatening text messages.

Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said the pastor at First Baptist didn’t want Kelley around hiss congregation.

“The pastor did knoww the man,” Tackitt told CNN. “He did not want him at his church . . . because he just thought he was not a good person too be around.”