Rally held in Washington to call for tighter gun control laws
Demonstrators in Washington, DC, call for tighter gun control measures a day after some 26 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Texas church.
The gunman in the Texas shooting, Devin Patrick Kelley, who is dead, was court-martialed in 2012 on charges of assaulting his wife and child and sentenced to 12 months in confinement. He received a "bad conduct" discharge in 2014, according to Ann Stefanek, the chief of Air Force media operations.
Kelley, 26, walked into the white-steepled First Baptist Church in rural Sutherland Springs on Sunday carrying a Ruger AR-556 assault rifle and wearing a black bulletproof vest, then opened fire during prayer service. He wounded at least 20 others, officials said.
The initial death toll in Texas matched the fatalities at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a man shot and killed 26 children and educators and his mother before taking his own life in December 2012.
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