Posted November 30, 2017 1:00 pm by Comments

By Christen Smith

The relatives of nine victims gunned down at a Texas church Nov. 5 blame the U.S. Air Force for their family members’ deaths, according to court filings, and want to make sure such a tragedy never happens again.
Joe and Claryce Holcombe filed a wrongful death claim Tuesday in what is one of the the first legal actions taken since 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, a former Airman, murdered 26 people — including their son, John Bryan Holcombe, and eight other relatives — at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
“We want to discipline the Air Force so something like this never happens again,” Joe Holcombe told KSAT News in San Antonio Tuesday. “I just know that God’s in charge and he is going to make whatever should happen, happen.”
Air Force officials earlier this month acknowledged failing to report Kelley’s 2012 assault convictions to federal authorities and directed an agency-wide review of more than 60,000 criminal cases dating back to 2002. So far, officials said Tuesday, multiple instances of unreported convictions have been discovered. 
The Holcombes allege in the complaint, however, the Air Force knew about this problem decades before and never did anything about it.
A 2015 review conducted by the Department of Defense’s Inspector General found roughly

Source: Guns.com

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