Multiple casualties in shooting at Texas church: US media

WASHINGTON - 5 November 2017: A shooting at a Baptist church in the US state of Texas on Sunday resulted in multiple casualties, news media reported. The shooter was reported killed.

The shooting took place at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small community about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio, reports said.

They said the shooter walked into the church shortly before noon - at a morning service that witnesses said was normally attended by some 50 people - and opened fire. A two-year-old was among the wounded, the Dallas Morning News website reported.

#UPDATE: Gunman who opened fire at church in Texas has been taken down, according to sheriff's office. https://t.co/1PfA44FXP3 pic.twitter.com/g6iJ9qpMPk

— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) November 5, 2017

There were "multiple fatalities and multiple wounded," according to Wilson County Commissioner Albert Gamez Jr, NBC News reported.

Our hearts are with #Texas

— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 5, 2017

A spokeswoman for Connally Memorial Medical Center in nearby Floresville told Fox News that "we have accepted a number of patients from the shooting." She gave no number.

May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2017

Helicopters and emergency personnel were arriving at the scene, and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were heading to the scene, the bureau said.

The shooting comes just over a month after a gunman in Las Vegas, firing down from a hotel room, killed 58 people and wounded hundreds attending an outdoor concert.

Karen & I send prayers to victims & their families in TX.We grieve w/ you & stand w/ resolve against evil. Thank you to the first responders

— Vice President Pence (@VP) November 5, 2017

And it came just over two years after a white supremacist, Dylann Roof, entered a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine people to death.