Sutherland Springs is an unincorporated community located on the old Spanish land grant of Manuel Tarin in northern Wilson County, Texas, United States.

On November 5, 2017, Sutherland Springs local church became the scene of the deadliest shooting in a place of worship in the United States when 25 people, including one pregnant person, were killed and 22 other were injured, before the shooter committed suicide.

[3] On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley shot 26 people dead and injured 22 at the community's First Baptist Church.

The gunfire was heard by Stephen Willeford, a church neighbor and former NRA instructor, who grabbed his weapon and ran toward the scene barefoot.

After a high-speed chase, Kelley succumbed to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.