" Heather Cooper Cheap Mattias Janmark Hoodie , 8, places her favorite doll on a row of crosses for each victim on Monday, after a mass shooting that killed 26 people in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Photo: AFP
A family dispute may have sparked the rampage by a US Air Force veteran who killed 26 people with an assault rifle in a small-town church even though he was legally prohibited from buying guns, officials said Monday.


The latest US mass shooting again raised questions about gun control but President Donald Trump dismissed them and instead praised a gun-owner who opened fire in an effort to stop the killer.


Ten people remained in critical condition a day after Devin Patrick Kelley, a 26-year-old private security guard Cheap Radek Faksa Hoodie , burst into the rural Baptist church during Sunday morning services and sprayed bullets at the congregation.


The Pentagon said it would probe why the Air Force failed to enter a domestic violence conviction into a database that could have prohibited Kelley from purchasing weapons, such as the AR-15 rifle and two handguns he had in his possession.


Investigators were focusing on reports that Kelley had sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, who regularly attended the church but was not there during the assault.


Victims of the massacre included an unborn baby, an 18-month-old toddler, eight members of a single family, and reportedly the gunman's grandmother-in-law. Twenty people were wounded.


The authorities said Kelley may have died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head after using his car to flee the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs Cheap John Klingberg Hoodie , a rural community of rolling hills and ranches of nearly 400 people near San Antonio.


Two men - Stephen Willeford, 55, and Johnnie Langendorff, 27 - were lauded as heroes for confronting Kelley after he mowed down nearly 50 churchgoers with gunfire.


Willeford grabbed his own AR-15 rifle and shot and wounded Kelley as he emerged from the church and headed for his car.


Willeford then flagged down a passing pickup truck driven by Langendorff and they pursued Kelley at high speed until he crashed his vehicle into a field.


Commenting on the violence during a visit to South Korea, US President Donald Trump said that if the ""very brave"" Willeford had not been armed, ""instead of having 26 dead Cheap Dan Hamhuis Hoodie , you would have had hundreds more dead."" Trump earlier said the latest shooting ""isn't a guns situation"" but rather a ""mental health problem at the highest level.""


Sunday's carnage came five weeks after the worst gun massacre in modern US history, when a retired accountant opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 people.


(Agencies)

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PARIS, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded the UNESCO Medal on Space Science to first Chinese national sent to space, Yang Liwei Cheap Tyler Seguin Hoodie , and three other prominent international space practitioners during the first edition of the award ceremony.


The ceremony was held on Friday evening at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris.


The three other scientific laureates of the 2017 edition are Valentina Tereshkova, the Russian cosmonaut and first woman in space, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, the first Cuban in space, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of International Space Station (ISS).


""I thank you all for your courage and commitment Cheap Jamie Benn Hoodie ,"" said Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, to the laureates. ""And I end with an appeal, for you to continue on your scientific journey, and also to return to UNESCO as often as possible, to reach out to younger generations Cheap Jason Spezza Shirt , to share UNESCO's message to build peace in the minds of men and women.""


Unable to attend the ceremony himself, Yang Liwei was represented by Shen Yang, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the People's Republic of China to UNESCO at the ceremony.


In a message delivered by Shen on his behalf, Yang Liwei recalled October 2003 when the world witnessed the success of China's first manned space mission that opened a new era of China's manned space program and made contributions to the human exploration into the unknown.