Texas church gunman once escaped from mental health center

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas -- The gunman who carried out the massacre of 26 people at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental-health center in New Mexico in 2012 and got in trouble for bringing guns onto a military base and threatening his superiors there, police reports indicate.

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