Texans turn to God as school 激しく揺するd by 最新の 狙撃

Worshippers attend a May 20, 2018, mass at Arcadia First Baptist Church in memory of the Santa Fe High School shooting victims in Texas

Worshippers …に出席する a May 20, 2018, 集まり at Arcadia First Baptist Church in memory of the Santa Fe High School 狙撃 犠牲者s in Texas

Grief-stricken families in southwestern Texas gathered in churches throughout Santa Fe on Sunday 捜し出すing spiritual succor に引き続いて a 大虐殺 at the town's high school, the nation's 最新の 集まり 狙撃.

As 連邦の 捜査官/調査官s search for a 動機 in the deadly attack, hundreds of people …に出席するd an emotional funeral service for a Pakistani 交流 student, one of 10 people killed in Friday's rampage. Many of the men wore 伝統的な イスラム教徒 garb, ひさまづくd and prayed.

The 銃器携帯者/殺しや has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student who is 申し立てられた/疑わしい to have used his father's shotgun and revolver to kill fellow classmates and two teachers.

At Arcadia First Baptist Church, Texas 知事 Greg Abbott hugged 生存者s of the 狙撃 and their parents and 勧めるd them to stay strong.

"We're here to support you," Abbott said.

Some 500 congregants 屈服するd their 長,率いるs as 暫定的な 牧師 Jerald Watkins 申し込む/申し出d 祈りs.

"It's time like this when all of us realize how 壊れやすい our lives really are," he said.

Santa Fe 10th grader Joshua Stevens, 15, said he was glad to see the 知事 in 出席, 追加するing, "It's important that after a 悲劇の event like this we just come together and worship."

Abbott later went 負かす/撃墜する the road to the school itself and placed a 花冠 on the 前線 lawn. Students and 居住(者)s also have placed flowers, messages and stuffed animals in 栄誉(を受ける) of those who died there.

"We come here today with hearts that are aching, knowing that there are parents today without children," he said.

- 'Harden' schools -

Texas Governor Greg Abbott embraces a grieving worshiper at Arcadia First Baptist Church at a memorial service for the victims of a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School

Texas 知事 Greg Abbott embraces a grieving 崇拝者 at Arcadia First Baptist Church at a 記念の service for the 犠牲者s of a 集まり 狙撃 at Santa Fe High School

As southeast Texas grieved, the political talk 転換d toward how to better 保護する 国民s and 施設s like schools in a country where guns have become an inextricable part of the fabric of American life.

Speaking at the high school, Abott 誓約(する)d "swift and mea ningful 活動/戦闘" to 妨げる 未来 school 大虐殺s.

He hopes 円卓会議の discussions 始める,決める to begin on Tuesday, with both 支持者s of gun 権利s and 支持するs of 厳格な人 支配(する)/統制するs, can "build a pathway to 改革(する)s so that other students will not have to live through a nightmare like what these students had to go through."

Texas 中尉/大尉/警部補 知事 Dan Patrick made the 事例/患者 for 上げるing 安全 at schools by arming teachers, something US 大統領 Donald Trump 支持するd after a 狙撃 in Parkland, Florida left 17 people dead.

"We need 武装した teachers -- trained, of course, not just anyone who has a gun, trained how to 扱う active shooters in the schools," Patrick told CNN.

"We need to harden the 的. We need to get 負かす/撃墜する to one or two 入り口s into our schools."

Monica Bracknell, 18, said she and other 上級のs were 許すd in to the school Saturday to retrieve their 所持品, and were "shaken up" by the 条件 of the hallways and classrooms.

"There's drywall and stuff all over the ground," she said.

After 会合 with Abbott at the church, she 強調する/ストレスd that reaction to the 狙撃 should 焦点(を合わせる) いっそう少なく on gun 権利s and more on 改善するing 安全.

"This kid is 明白に 安定性のない and he knew that there were 欠陥s in the school system to get into the rooms," Bracknell said.

- 資本/首都 殺人 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s -

Residents leave flowers at a memorial for victims of a mass shooting at  Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas

居住(者)s leave flowers at a 記念の for 犠牲者s of a 集まり 狙撃 at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas

Pagourtzis is 存在 held on 資本/首都 殺人 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s and could 直面する the 死刑.

"We are as shocked and 混乱させるd as anyone else by these events," his family said in a 声明. "What we have learned from マスコミ 報告(する)/憶測s seems 相いれない with the boy we love.

"We are gratified by the public comments made by other Santa Fe High School students that show Dimitri as we know him: a smart, 静かな, 甘い boy."

Galveston 郡 裁判官 示す Henry, who 否定するd 保釈(金) to Pagourtzis, 公式文書,認めるd that the 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う "said in his 声明 he 行為/法令/行動するd alone." The 事例/患者 will go before another 裁判官 Monday.

The New York Times 特記する/引用するd an affidavit written by one 捜査官/調査官 as 説 the 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う had 自白するd and said he spared "students he did like so he could have his story told."

US マスコミ have identified all the 犠牲者s, who 含むd two teachers and 交流 student Sabika Sheikh from Pakistan.

J.J. ワット, a 防御の end with the 国家の Football League's Houston Texans, has told 当局 he will 支払う/賃金 the funeral expenses of those killed, NFL 公式の/役人s 確認するd.

Calls for gun 改革(する) are いっそう少なく likely to resonate in the gun 権利s bastion of Texas after the Santa Fe 殺人s, as they did after Parkland three months ago.

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