Texas Church Shooter’s Ex-Wife Speaks Out

It’s been a few days since we’ve heard any new major developments on the Texas church massacre that left 26 dead and over a dozen more wounded. The last we heard, the shooter was able to purchase a weapon due to a bureaucratic error on the Air Force’s part.

The truth is, Devin Patrick Kelley was a terrible, abusive man. He should’ve never been able to get his hands on a weapon.

Now, his first wife, Tessa Brennaman, is speaking out. She said she lived in constant fear of him.

“He just had a lot of demons or hatred inside of him,” she told “Inside Edition.”

Kelley physically and mentally abused Brennaman. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to “hitting, choking, kicking and pulling her hair.” He even fractured her young boy’s skull.

Brennaman even said Kelley threatened to kill her over a speeding ticket.

“And he had a gun in his holster right here and he took that gun out, and he put it to my template and he told me, ‘Do you want to die? Do you want to die?'” Brennaman said.

The guilty plea earned Kelley a one-year sentence in a military prison, followed by a bad-conduct discharge.

She said he threatened to kill her and her whole family.

There are more chilling details. Apparently, Kelley went to a fall festival just days before the massacre. He was dressed in all black and creeped everyone out.

Less than a week before the Texas church massacre, Kelley showed up at a festival dressed in black and acted so strangely that people kept a close eye on him, two longtime parishioners said Friday.

Kelley “was completely distant and way out in thought,” recalled Judy Green. She and her husband said Kelley often exhibited troubling behavior.

At the fall festival held on Halloween night at the First Baptist Church, Kelley “didn’t even blink — he just stared,” she said.

Rod Green, a former law enforcement officer in Montana, said when he saw Kelley arrive in all black, he examined him closely to make sure he was not carrying a gun. The Greens both have licenses to carry handguns, and they are friends with Kelley’s in-laws.

If Kelley had been carrying a weapon, Green said, he would have escorted him away because of all the children there. Judy Green said she positioned herself to keep an eye on Kelley at all times.

“There was something wrong with the picture,” she said. “I was thinking forward, and that was what was scaring me.”

What do you do in that situation? I don’t even know. It’s just sick. He showed up just to get a sweep of the people he would murder just days later.

This is all so horrific.

h/t CBS News