Church Shooter on Psychiatric Drugs
The teenage best friend of Texas church shooter Devin Kelley has revealed how his former pal had a trigger-happy temper but had always been ‘all talk, no action’.
Ralph Martinez tells Dailymail.com that he was Kelley’s best friend from aged 12 to 19 years old.
‘He was like a brother to me at the time,’ Martinez says in an exclusive interview.
‘When I heard the news of what Devin did I was mortified. I never thought he could be capable of such an evil. I’m hoping this is all a bad dream.
‘I’m shocked by his actions, growing up he had a hair-trigger temper, I saw him get into plenty of verbally aggressive arguments, but I never saw him get physical with anyone. He was all talk, no action. I never imagined this could happened.’
Kelley, 26, opened fire during a Sunday morning church service at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 and injuring 20.
Kelley was found dead in his car after fleeing the scene and being chased by eye-witnesses. Investigators believe he died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
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Martinez, 27, a car detailer says he met Kelley at a skate board park in New Braunfels, TX when he was 12 and Kelley was 11.
‘We immediately hit it off as best-friends’, says Martinez.
‘We both were into skate boarding and video games, mainly skate boarding video games and Halo.
‘Devin had authority issues growing up says Martinez. Nothing really over the top, he just didn’t like to be told what to do, especially by his parents, he would constantly get into arguments with them.
‘When they asked him to do a simple task like cleaning up his room, he would immediately do it, he would ask them why? But he eventually did what they asked him to do.’
Both attended the same church in New Braunfels, Texas – the Tree of Life Church.
Martinez said he had a lot in common, both of them were super-hyper active.
Martinez says he took prescription medicine for his ADHD until he was 19 and Devin took prescription pills for the same thing for as long as he can remember.
‘I spent many nights at his house for sleepovers where we played skate boarding video games all night long and had too many to count family dinners at his house with his parents and sisters.
‘Over the years his father added onto to their house and it ended up being really nice, with a pool and Jacuzzi, even having statutes of lions and tigers out by the pool.
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