He was armed with a Ruger AR-556 rifle, and within minutes, many of those inside the small church were dead and injured. After the carge, a local resident engaged Kelley in a gun battle as he exited the church. Kelley fled at high speed with the civilian in pursuit before running off the roadway, where he was later found dead. “The local citizen pursued him,” Freeman Martin, a senior official for the Texas Department of Public Safety told The Washington Post.