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A heavily pregnant woman, three of her children and her father-in-law have been identified as five of the 26 victims of the mass shooting in a Texas church on Sunday.

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Officials said at a Monday press conference those killed ranged in age from 18 months to 77 years old. The 20 people who were wounded ranged in age from five to 73 and included several children.

Crystal Holcombe was killed along with three of her five children, her cousin Nick Uhlig told reporters. Holcombe’s two other children were injured, he added.

“She doesn’t even drink, smoke or nothing,” Uhlig told the Houston Chronicle. “She just takes care of kids, she raises goats and makes homemade cheese. That kind of thing. They don’t go out dancing or anything like that. They’re real old-fashioned, down-to-earth.”

Holcombe’s father-in-law, Bryan Holcombe, had done ministry work at a prison, said Uhlig. “He would go up to the prison with ukulele to sing.”

Karla Holcombe, Bryan Holcombe’s wife, was also reported to have died along with their 36-year-old son, Marc. Her last activity on Facebook, on 23 October, was a post from the church about the Fall festival event eight days later.

Fourteen-year-old Annabelle Pomeroy, the daughter of the church’s pastor, Frank Pomeroy, has also been confirmed dead. Her parents were both away from home, in different states, when the attack happened.

“Heaven truly gained a real beautiful angel this morning along with many more,” the girl’s uncle Scott Pomeroy said on Facebook, posting a picture of the smiling girl poolside. All those robbed of life in Sunday’s bloodbath, he wrote, “have taken their last breath of dirty air and took their first breath of heavenly air with new bodies with no pain and suffering”.

Joann Ward and two of her children, Brooke and Emily, also died, according to a fundraising page; her five-year-old son was gravely injured.

The grandmother of Kelley’s wife, Lula White, was also killed in the attack, CNN reported. On her Facebook profile she described herself as a volunteer who would “do what’s needed” at the church.

Sixteen-year-old Haley Krueger, who aspired to be a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit, was also killed. “She loved her church. She was always hyper and ready for anything. She wanted to go to school and be a nurse in the NICU. She loved babies. She had two nephews and adored both of them,” her mother, Charlene Uhl, told People magazine.