POLICE: 2 PARISHIONERS SHOT AND KILLED TEXAS CHURCH GUNMAN

White Settlement, Texas — Congregants shot and killed a man who opened fire in a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, police said. A person shot by the suspect also died and a second parishioner has life-threatening injuries following the attack at the West Freeway Church of Christ, White Settlement Police Department Chief J.P. Bevering said during a news conference Sunday afternoon. The assailant fired once before the “heroic actions” of the congregants retaliated to cut his assault short, Bevering said. “Unfortunately, this country has seen so many of these that we’ve actually gotten used to it at this point. And it’s tragic and it’s a terrible situation, especially during the holiday season,” Jeoff Williams, a regional director with the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at the news conference. It is not the first deadly shooting to take place at a church in Texas. In November 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire on the congregation at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing more than two dozen worshippers, before taking his own life.