Nation IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Hundreds Gather for First Funerals
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Hundreds of mourners, some wearing white ribbons in memory of those slain in a gunman’s rampage through a Killeen, Tex., restaurant, gathered for the first funerals following the nation’s worst mass shooting. Meanwhile, the death toll rose to 23 victims when a woman injured in the rampage died. “The tragedy of Wednesday is very personal; it is unbelievable, it is inexplicable, it was unpredictable,” the Rev. Andy Davis, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Belton, told about 350 mourners.
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