Mourners attend a candlelight vigil after a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. REUTERS/Joe Mitchell
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) - With just two gas stations, one post office and a few hundred residents, Sutherland Springs was too tiny to be incorporated as a city, but it became a focus of global attention on Sunday when it suffered the worst mass shooting in modern Texas history.
The heavily Christian community set amid farmlands and rolling hills about 40 miles (65 km) east of San Antonio is too small to have its own police force, and much of its social activity is centered on its two churches.
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