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Michael Ward helped at the church by carrying out “the ones that were alive”. He struggled to speak and hold back tears as he recalled the scene.

“Everything happened quick,” he said. But Emily, a niece, did not make it, he said. On Sunday night he was waiting for news of a five-year-old nephew, who was shot and had surgery.

Terri Du Plantis said that a teenage girl she once taught as a substitute teacher was injured and her mother died in the attack. “Very sweet, very loving, very kind,” she said of the girl. “This just hits really close to home.”