Photos of the eight members of the Holcombe family: Bryan, Crystal, Karla, Marc, Noah and three of Crystal’s kids, Greg, Emily and Megan who were among the 26 people that were killed in the Texas Church Shooting, have been released.
They were killed while attending a service at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs when a gunman, identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, stormed the church and killed 26. Kelley later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
According to Holcombe family patriarch Joe Holcombe, who is Bryan’s father, Crystal was pregnant at the time of her death.
A Family friend, Christopher Foster who created a GoFund Me account in honor of Holcombe’s sister Sarah Holcombe Slavin, who is also alive, wrote:
We are putting this together in honor of Sarah Holcombe Slavin, who has lost half of her family. Her father was the guest speaker at church that day; she was running late. She has lost her father, mother, sister-in-law (who was pregnant), five nieces and nephews, and her best friend since childhood, Tara. This means her brother John has lost his mom, dad, wife, and three kids (with two more injured) in one day. Another brother has lost two children as well. Keep them all in your prayers. If we could all gather up some financial support to send this family during this devastation, it would be a blessing. This is too much to bear on their own, let’s be the Church!
“It’s going to take a lot of funds to cover eight funerals, lost wages, perhaps child/adult counseling, and who knows what else,” said Foster on Facebook, according to the Austin American-Statesman. “No matter what number the Go Fund Me reaches, it will never be enough. But everything helps.”
So far, nearly 1,000 people have joined forces to raise almost $60,000 of the $100,000 goal.
The eight victims are pictured below along with other members of the Holcombe family.
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