Crews demolish church in Sutherland Springs where shooter killed 26 people in 2017
August 13, 2024 4:14AM CDT
Source: YouTube
SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — The site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history is no more.
Within a few hours the former sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs was reduced to a pile of rubble, loaded into trucks and hauled away.
The building was where a gunman killed 26 people during a Sunday morning church service in November of 2017.
It had been used as a memorial to the shooting victims but church members voted to demolish the building in 2021.
A new church has since been built.
Some community members wanted to block the demolition and took the matter to court. A temporary restraining order was granted last month, but another judge denied the request.
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