Texas Church Shooting Victims: Full List Includes Unborn Child

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, TX — The names of the 26 people who died in Sunday's shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, were officially released Wednesday by the Texas Department of Public Safety. They include the unborn child of one of the victims, Crystal Holcombe, bringing to nine the number in her extended family who were killed in the massacre.

The shooting that shattered the serenity of a morning worship service has been called the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history, and the worst church shooting in U.S. history. Authorities have not firmly established a motive, but said gunman Devin P. Kelley appeared to have been involved in a domestic situation with his mother-in-law, who sometimes attended the church, but she weren’t at the service Sunday. But Kelley’s wife’s grandmother was among those killed.

Authorities have said that about half of those killed or injured are children. The youngest of those killed was 18 months old and the oldest was 77.

Here are the victims:

• Robert Scott Marshall, 56
• Karen Sue Marshall, 56
• Keith Allen Braden, 62
• Tara E. McNulty, 33
• Annabelle Renae Pomeroy, 14
• Peggy Lynn Warden, 56
• Dennis Neil Johnson, Sr. 77
• Sara Johns Johnson, 68
• Lula Woicinski White, 71
• Joann Lookingbill Ward, 30
• Brooke Bryanne Ward, 5
• Robert Michael Corrigan, 51
• Shani Louise Corrigan, 51
• Therese Sagan Rodriguez, 66
• Ricardo Cardona Rodriguez, 64
• Haley Krueger, 16
• Emily Garcia (died at the hospital), 7
• Emily Rose Hill, 11
• Gregory Lynn Hill, 13
• Megan Gail Hill, 9
• Marc Daniel Holcombe, 36
• Noah Holcombe ,1
• Karla Plain Holcombe, 58
• John Bryan Holcombe, 60
• Crystal Marie Holcombe (pregnant*), 36
• *Carlin Brite "Billy Bob" Holcombe (unborn)

The slaughter claimed nine members of an extended family — Bryan Holcombe, 60, an associate pastor at the church, and his wife, Karla Holcombe, 58, were both killed. Also killed were Crystal Holcombe, who was eight months pregnant; three of her children, Emily, Megan and Greg; and her unborn child. Texas Department of Public Safety officials said Tuesday the death toll of 26 included the unborn child of Crystal Holcombe. Her husband, John Holcombe and two of their other children survived. Marc Daniel Holcombe and his infant daughter, who is 18 months old, also died. “We’re having a hard time,” Joe Holcombe, the patriarch of the family, told NBC News.

Tara Elyse McNulty, a close friend of the Holcombe family, had lived with Bryan and Karla Holcombe and called them Mom and Dad, a family friend, Ron Scott, told CNN. “It rips your heart out of your chest,” her best friend, Amber Maricle, told The Washington Post. “She was like my soul sister. We could literally finish each other’s sentences.”

Annabelle Pomeroy, 14, the daughter of the church pastor, Frank Pomeroy, and his wife, Sherri Pomeroy, who were out of town when the gunman opened fire on the congregation, was killed. She “was one very beautiful, special child,” her father told ABC News. "We lost more than Belle yesterday, and the one thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement is the fact that Belle was surrounded by her church family that she loved fiercely, and vice versa," Sherri Pomeroy said Monday at a news conference. "We ate together, we laughed together, we cried together, and we worshipped together. Now most of our church family is gone, our building is probably beyond repair and the few of us that are left behind lost tragically yesterday.

Joann Ward and her daughters, Brooke Ward, 5, and Emily Garza, 7, were killed in the massacre. "My sister was the best mom. She would do anything for her babies. She would do anything for her family, period. She had the biggest heart," Kelly Lookingbill, Ward's sister, told NBC. "This hurts so much for all of us. Joann was a wonderful giving person, and she was taken from us way too soon."

Lulu Woicinski White, 71, a grandmother of the gunman’s wife, was described as a “caring person — a God-loving person” by her sister, Mary Mishler Cleburne, the New York Post reported.

Haley Krueger, 16, was an aspiring nurse who wanted to work in a neonatal intensive care unit. Her mother, Charlene Marie Uhl, told CNN she was “a vibrant 16-year-old that loved life.”

Robert and Shani Corrigan were high school sweethearts and married soon after their 1985 graduation. "God is in control, and I know that my son and my daughter-in-law are in the arms of Jesus," Robert’s mother, Jean-Anne Corrigan, told WDIV-TV. "I know that."

R. Scott Marshall, 56, and Karen Marshall, 57, met in the Air Force more than 32 years ago. “They lasted,” Holly Hannum, R. Scott’s sister, told People. “They had kids, they traveled — they had a love that lasted over time.”

Richard Rodríguez, 64, and his 66-year old wife Theresa Rodríguez, 66, were married in 2006 and were described by Richard’s daughter, Regina Amador, as “just amazing people” who were involved in their church. “I lost my mom when I was 18,” she told People. “... I can’t believe this is happening, but it’s happening.”

Dennis Johnson, 77, and Sara Johnson, 68, were both killed in the massacre. “R.I.P. to my uncle Dennis and my aunt Sara,” the couple’s nephew, Fred Spence Jr., wrote, according to People. “I’m lost for words and still in shock.”

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This is a developing story. Patch will update it as more victims are identified.

Photo: Kenneth and Irene Hernandez pay their respects as they visit a makeshift memorial with crosses placed near the scene of a shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)