Just seven days after it became the scene of the deadliest shooting in Texas history, First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, reopened its doors on Sunday to commemorate the 26 lives lost just one week prior.
It was 2008 when Katherine Wolf suffered a massive brain stem stroke that would forever change her life. At just 26 years old, the wife and brand new mother was not expected to live, much less recover.
‘Niki’ began experiencing “excruciating pain” in her abdomen last spring. She sought help from doctors who advised that her pain was simply her body healing from a previous operation.
Ryland’s uncle Michael Ward told The New York Daily News that he carried his nephew out of the church following the attack, where a helicopter rushed him to the hospital. According to the outlet, he’d found the child “clinging to a church pew” after the shooting.
