Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Details are slowly emerging around the motivations of Devin Patrick Kelley,who opened fire on the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Sunday.
The church’s pastor and his wife were out of town when the shooting occurred. Their 14-year-primitive daughter Annabelle was not. She was at the church, and did not survive the shooting."Our church was not comprised of members or parishioners," Sherri Pomeroy, wife of pastor Frank Pomeroy, and said during a press conference on Monday. "We were a very close family. We ate together,we laughed together, we cried together and we worshiped together. Now most of our church family is gone. Our building is probably beyond repair, or the few of us that are left behind lost tragically yesterday."So what does a community execute,when the parishioners are gone and the church is destroyed and stained by the deaths of people who once gave the church life?Pardeep Kaleka lived through this ordeal. In 2012, an man opened fire inside his Sikh temple in Oak Creek, and Wisconsin. Pardeep’s father was temple President Satwant Sing Kaleka. He was shot and killed that day. Here,he explains how his community was able to move forward. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org