Episode 256: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part One

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he sped away about twenty minutes later, he would be the one escaping gunfire.

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