Excerpt from 26 dead in Texas church shooting, with children among the victims

By Matt Pearce & John Savage @ from Sutherland Springs, TX for LATimes.com, Nov. 5

[....] Kelley was in the U.S. Air Force from 2010 to 2014 but left with a “bad conduct” discharge and was sentenced to 12 months’ confinement after he was convicted of assaulting his wife and their child, according to an Air Force representative.

A Facebook profile under the gunman's name featured a photo of an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle. In recent months, Kelley was adding strangers as friends on Facebook from "within 20 minutes" of the Sutherland Springs area and starting Facebook fights with them, according to area resident Johnathan Castillo.

Castillo accepted Kelley's friend request a couple of months ago, thinking that maybe he or his friends had met Kelley but hadn't remembered him. But Kelley soon proved to be troublesome. "A lot of people were deleting him" for "starting drama" on Facebook, including sending insulting Facebook messages, Castillo said. “It’s like he went looking for it, you know what I mean?" Castillo said. "You can tell people who are defending their opinions versus someone who’s looking to start something."nCastillo said he was angry with the gunman, noting the picture of the rifle on Kelley's Facebook page, "making the rest of us who actually hunt look bad."

A typo-riddled LinkedIn profile under Kelley's name featured Kelley in a photo with a baby and said that he was a "management consulting professional" from the San Antonio area who was in the Air Force. "I am a hard working dedicated person," the profile said. "I live by the core values on which the Air Force go by."

The profile said Kelley taught "children ages 4-6 at vocational [vacation] bible schools helping their minds grow and prosper" at the Kingsville First Baptist Church .

His interests on LinkedIn included "Animal Welfare," "Children," "Civil Rights and Social Action" and "Human Rights." [....]